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- Comment on Day 578 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 29 minutes ago:
Have you played Dinkum? How do you think they compare?
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 1 day ago:
The only real difficulty I foresee with users down the line is what happens when people lose their recovery keys.
Yep, the possibility of someone losing their recovery codes is a risk shared by practically all e2ee systems, authenticators, etc. (Have you backed up your Steam Guard recovery codes?) When a user is the only one with access to their secrets, they are also the only one who can be responsible for them.
This is part of why I suggested in my top-level comment that room admins coming from Discord disable end-to-end encryption when creating their first Matrix rooms. This keeps things simpler as their users get acquainted with Matrix, and reduces the consequences if someone loses their account recovery key. The point-to-point HTTPS encryption between client and server will still be in place, providing the same level of protection that Discord offers. End-to-end encryption can always be added to a room later, once everyone is familiar with the new environment.
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 1 day ago:
I don’t think it’s meant to inspire confidence.
I think it’s meant to moderate expectations, and give a peek into the current state of an evolving system.
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 1 day ago:
2026-02-12
A couple things to keep in mind if you’re getting started with Matrix after having been on Discord:
End-to-end encryption is available, but you might want to leave it disabled when you create a room. This will help keep things simple for your users as they get familiar with Matrix. Connections between client and server will still be encrypted using HTTPS, which is the same level of encryption that Discord has. (And if it’s a public room, e2ee wouldn’t have any value anyway.) You can always add end-to-end encryption to your rooms later.
A few terms used on Discord are different in the Matrix ecosystem…
Discord term Matrix term server space channel room discord.com homeserver (there are many) If you don’t like the first Matrix client you try, consider trying others. Much like email clients, the features and user interface styles vary. The blog post mentions Cinny and Commet. Element X is probably the simplest mobile client with Matrix’s recent fast-startup feature (though it’s still catching up on other features). More clients are listed here.
Voice and video chat in Matrix are currently available only on some clients, and it’s done by integrating Jitsi. Not ideal, but still useful for at least some use cases. A better system is in development. Here’s a preview of it: call.element.io
Matrix.org is by far the largest public homeserver. It’s convenient in that anyone can get an account without having to run their own homeserver, but it can also suffer slowdowns when an influx of users are arriving all at once, such as right now. You can choose to be patient, or look for a different public homeserver, or pay for a homeserver host, or (if you have the means) self-host.
Matrix.org and some other public homeservers ask for an email address when you sign up, so that they have a way to recover your account if you forget your password. It’s not required by The Matrix protocol, though, and some servers might allow new accounts with no contact info at all. I don’t know which ones; you’ll have to hunt for one (or run your own) if that’s what you want.
The blog post mentions account portability, which is not yet available in Matrix. This means that your user ID (@user:example.com) is currently tied to the homeserver where you create it (example.com). If you decide to switch to an account on another homeserver, you’ll have to get re-invited into any private chats you had joined with the old account. However, the rooms you create on your original homeserver are not tied to that server. So long as at least one room member is on another homeserver, the room will carry on (with its original ID) even if its original homeserver vanishes. This means, for example, that you could create a room on matrix.org today, and migrate its admin duties to an account on your own private homeserver that you set up a year from now. (Or even invite all your members to migrate to your private homeserver.)
- Submitted 1 day ago to games@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 days ago:
My TTRPG groups use Matrix for text and Mumble for voice. It works well.
We don’t use video, so I can’t vouch for that. The Matrix client called Element currently does it using Jitsi, and there’s a new approach in development that will eventually be supported by more Matrix clients: call.element.io
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 days ago:
Careful: Discord misuses the word “server” to mean community, so a lot of Discord users here might misunderstand, and think you just said the average Joe doesn’t need to set up a community. (Of course, I’m sure you actually mean he doesn’t need to set up his own homeserver instance, which is true.)
Discord term Matrix term server space channel room discord.com homeserver (there are many) - Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 days ago:
Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo,
I don’t know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I’ve seen praise for FluffyChat.)
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 days ago:
For others who are interested:
- Comment on New Subnautica 2 video shows off a convenient and social dive elevator, while promising that multiplayer won't ruin single player 3 days ago:
Promised in the same way that the publisher promised the developers a big bonus, only to cheat them out of it later?
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features 1 week ago:
The new AI controls panel will also enable users to manage five AI-powered features individually: browser translations, alt text generation for images in PDFs, AI-enhanced tab grouping with suggested names, link previews showing key points, and sidebar access to chatbots (including Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral).
I’m glad for that. I don’t want most of these things, but the translation feature is very useful, runs locally, and only activates when I click it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The need being served here is for an alternative to Google’s spyware, not for an alternative to Android. The Android operating system is not the problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s important to recognize that Android distributions without Google’s (spyware) Play Services are vastly better for privacy than the commercial Android distributions that ship on most phones. To overlook/minimize that difference by calling them “just” different Android distributions is misleading.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 weeks ago:
In that example, Epic is the storefront and Rockstar is the publisher. It’s exactly what I described.
Maddening, isn’t it?
- Comment on The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now 2 weeks ago:
The tech used by Minigalaxy is much more lightweight than Heroic. I would be inclined to use it if I wasn’t using Lutris and/or my own scripts instead.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t. Launching things is my desktop environment’s job.
Since the rise of game publishers’ launchers, I have to use my (desktop) launcher to launch a (storefront’s) launcher to launch a (publisher’s) launcher to launch the game. It’s probably the best example of the yo dawg meme I have ever seen. In other words, ridiculously annoying, not to mention wasteful of my time and system resources.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 3 weeks ago:
I love the idea.
I hope you’ll reconsider the domain name, though. Dashes make them harder to type, harder to remember (was there a dash? an underscore? nothing?), harder to read aloud to someone else, and (in some user interfaces) impossible to select with a double click. A domain name containing a dash isn’t unusable, of course, but is a perpetual source of friction and mild annoyance that could have been avoided.
- Comment on YSK - All song birds on the planet are descended from ancestors in Australia. 3 weeks ago:
TIL, not YSK
- Comment on At-home STD tests offer new options for screening and treatment 3 weeks ago:
I dislike lemmy.ml too, but I your bot-like reposting of their content serves mainly to broaden their reach. I don’t think you’re making things better.
Moreover, your posts are so fast and frequent that they dominate at least some of communities that you target, often leaving local subscribers without a chance to post about the relevant topics on their own. Having watched it happen for more than a few weeks, I have concluded that your posts are mostly annoying, and probably do more harm than good.
I don’t expect to convince you to stop, but would you at least consider delaying your reposts by a day, and then proceeding only if nobody in your targeted community has already posted about that topic?
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 3 weeks ago:
Almost certainly to protect invasive anti-cheat code that they expect your computer to run with system-level privileges.
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 3 weeks ago:
Easy Anti-Cheat - Requires manual removal after game uninstall Boot Protection - Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s plenty of room between gimmick and mainstream for a viable product.
Not everyone uses a phone to watch videos. Not everyone cares if a phone is a little thicker if it means they get a real keyboard.
As for the other challenges, Sony/Ericsson proved years ago that they can be overcome, with the Xperia Mini Pro.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 19 comments
- Comment on Anybody know a source for old logos as stickers? 4 weeks ago:
duckduckgo.com/?q=custom+stickers
If I were doing it, I would try to find someone with a laser cutter, make a stencil of the logo, and use it to apply paint (or fingernail polish) directly to the device. I suppose there might even be a custom stencil service out there somewhere.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 4 weeks ago:
Not to be confused with the MMO ganker hell that also has Albion in its title.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 5 weeks ago:
Civ 4 is great.
Civ 5 is mostly great if you add the Brave New World (or maybe Gods and Kings) expansion. My main complaint is that I don’t like how religion affects the mid-late game, but the game is still great overall.
Both can be had for cheap when they go on sale.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 5 weeks ago:
I played the tutorial, and continued the game for several hours after the tutorial part ended.
I struggled to stay awake. It was by far the most boring slog I have ever experienced in any edition of Civ. (I haven’t played Civ 7, though.)
- Comment on KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller 5 weeks ago:
For people who still need it:
- Comment on The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026 5 weeks ago:
The biggest problem I’ve noticed with every “best distro for gaming” article and social media post is that the author invariably assumes their own needs represent everyone else’s.
The second biggest problem is that they almost always overstate their favorite distro’s gaming performance compared to all the others (spoiler: the differences are negligible) or else present others as though they lack something that cannot be easily added.
The best distro advice I can offer to a newcomer is to consider your other computing needs, like preferred release/upgrade cadence, or availability of help from an experienced friend, or vendor support for non-game software that you need. Pick a distro based on those things, and you’ll almost certainly be able to game on it with good performance, perhaps with a couple extra steps when setting it up in the first place.