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3 hours agoWell to me it just sounds like they were doing target practice on random stuff lol
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5·3 hours agoOk so terminology wise:
- Discord Server = Matrix Space
- Discord DM = Matrix Chat (these usually exist separately from Spaces/Servers)
- Discord chat room = Matrix Room
- Discord video/voice channels = Matrix Video Room (these still have an optional text chat FYI)
If you just want to create something resembling a discord server, you first create a Space.
You can decide if it should be public or private (public = anyone with the address can join / private = invite only)Then you add rooms to it, normal rooms for text channels and video rooms for voice/video channels. During the creation of each of these rooms (or after) you decide if they should be visible to all space members, or be invite only (think mod channels).
Afterwards just invite people to the Space and they will be able to join the rooms you set up.
There are 3 predefined permission levels: Default, Moderator, Admin but you can also define numeric power levels for more fine grained control over what people can do. You can set permissions for users on the Space level and on the room level separately. So you can give someone mod powers for the entire Space or only for a single room. You can also set the default power level very low (think Guest/Applicant) so that people can only join the space itself and nothing else (or only a guest room) until an admin or mod changes their power level to something higher (think member) that allows them to join other rooms.
Some more details:
All of the different types of rooms can exist completely separate from Servers/Spaces or be part of them. The only purpose of Spaces is to create a sort of umbrella that these can all be grouped under. New people can then join the Space and automatically get access to all the rooms that the Space/Server admin wants them to have access to.
So in practice you will have a bunch of personal DMs or group chats that exist on their own, basically like any other instant messenger like Signal or WhatsApp. And then if you have a larger community that requires some more structure you can create a Space, to which you then add whatever rooms you need.
There is a lot of flexibility to this however. Unlike with discord, all rooms exist completely on their own, they arent actually fundamentally tied to a space. So you can detach a room from a space and attach it to another. You can also add preexisting rooms to a new Space. So if you have a group chat with your gaming buddies, but at some point decide you want to expand your group and want to create a Space with multiple rooms, you can just add your original group chat to the newly created space.
So in a way you should think of Spaces not in the same way as Discord servers, but just as an arbitrary grouping of chats and voice channels that also allows you to set access restrictions for all of those chats in a single place.
Sometimes things get confusing. This is the permissions settings page of Space i just created. So why does it say
Give one or multiple users in this room more privileges
Thats because Spaces are actually rooms too, just fancy ones that can have sub rooms. This is bad UI design and should say “space” instead of “room” but thats just where matrix is at right now. Clients like commet will be what solves this for people by giving them a UI with a more familiar terminology.
I love this genre of youtube videos.
Similar to the vibe of https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwkDQ8tE_3UhB8LcnvUv0Fw
2·11 hours agoDeswegen das “nicht so wirklich”. Aber wenn diese US firmen einfach irgendwann sagen “fick eure datenschutzgesetze wir machen jetzt was wir wollen und zwar noch mehr als bisher” was bleibt dann übrig außer netzsperren? Die Geldstrafen können sie ja auch einfach ignorieren. Man könnte all deren Infrastruktur und Büros in der EU Beschlagnahmen und die Chefs einknasten, aber ist das besser als Netzsperren? Man kann nicht ernsthaft von unserer technisch komplett inkompetenten Bevölkerung erwarten das problem ohne den gesetzgeber selbst zu lösen.
To me a major issue (besides the client feature parity) right now is history sharing in encrypted rooms being non functional. At the moment when you invite someone new to an encrypted room, they wont be able to read the historic messages in it, even if you specifically toggled that on, because the toggle currently doesnt do anything after the old insecure implementation was removed. They are working on it and its probably not super far away, but currently you basically have to use unencrypted rooms if you want new people to be able to see old messages.
Nicht so wirklich, aber die Maßnahmen gegen big tech in Europe gehen mir einfach zu langsam.
18·11 hours agoTo save you a click (because its a waste of an article):
TeamSpeak, GameVox, Signal
Except for maybe GameVox, these are not really discord alternatives at all. But thats closed source and this is their pricing page 🤮
32kbps audio? 2h a month screenshare? 20 “AI banners” a month??? lmao. Get the fuck outta here.
Ooh nice to see, thanks for the link. Once all the major matrix clients support livekit, matrix will be much more recommendable imo. Element works okay on a modern computer, but it really is insanely bloated when you look at what other clients achieve with less than 1/10th of the application size.
FluffyChat from my testing just now only supports the legacy 1:1 p2p calls not the new element-call system (here called MatrixRTC + LiveKit) that supports large group calls and performs much better. I dont think cinny supports it either if i look at their changelogs from the last year.
MatrixRTC + LiveKit
Grrreeeat. CBP casually out here committing terrorism. Imagine if they accidentally shot at a commercial aircraft o.o
Better to just ditch discord anyways ;)
Ive been using it for many years now and i understand it can be confusing at times. Do you have any specific questions that i might be able to answer? I have onboarded dozens of people at this point and somehow we always figured it out.
I was immediately gonna comment “but does it support element-call” and to my surprise:
Supporting both, 1:1 calls over WebRTC, and voice channels with MatrixRTC + LiveKit
So to my knowledge this is the first client thats not an element fork that supports the new call system 🎉
Looks like it was added only a week ago, so maybe there will be some bugs, but still im very happy to finally see this in an independent client.
Old but still funny
34·15 hours agoEtwas irreführend eine neue kernel version als ein großes update zu betiteln. Das bringt am ende noch noobs dazu zu denken es gäbe bei Linux ein Versionsschema wie bei windows.
This is like 20 lines of code, so shouldnt take long to verify for someone that knows what they are doing.
I mean thats basically like calling for Trumps execution. But thats not a bad thing, its extremely based of her to call for Trumps execution.
141·16 hours agoVMs should be a safe option if they work with autocad. Unless you do something really wrong, a VM has no write access to the host linux system and therefore poses no danger to it.
Idk if autocad works in a VM, but i dont see why it wouldnt.
Also age verification stuff is the fault of governments at the core. Governments force companies to do age verification but dont specify how or that it should be secure and private.