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- 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.
- Submitted 1 day ago to technology@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 days ago:
For others who are interested:
- 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 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! 2 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 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 CLI Browser - brow6el 4 weeks ago:
Not CLI. Terminal interface. (Sort of. It’s dependent on sixel graphics support.)
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 5 weeks ago:
It’s refreshing to see Expedition 33 winning a category it deserves, and only that category.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
you had no objectives.
So you could just stay on your ship forever.
Are you sure you haven’t inverted the cause/effect relationship here? ;)
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments
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- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 month ago:
- Comment on "The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare" Benn Jordan 1 month ago:
There’s a lot more here than what the headline captures, about Flock, their lies, and how their systems’ widespread use affects communities. It’s worth a watch.
- Comment on The Cameras Tracking You = A Security Nightmare 1 month ago:
There’s a lot more here than what the headline captures, about Flock, their lies, and how their systems’ widespread use affects communities. It’s worth a watch.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
Sad to see that so many FANTASTIC games ended up with nil, because E33 stole the show so hard, but it’s tough to argue that they didn’t deserve each one.
I’ll argue it.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a beautiful game. The music is amazing, the scenery is lovely, and the English voice acting surprisingly good.
But its gameplay is bog standard JRPG battles with a basic parry mechanic. Nothing original or otherwise interesting there.
I feel it deserved every award it received for being a work of art, but Game of the Year? No.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 1 month ago:
Hi-Fi Rush was released shortly before that time, but it was Denuvo-encumbered until about a week ago.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 month ago:
Pre-ordering games encourages publishers to release buggy, unoptimized, incomplete, garbage.
And, since there’s no scarcity, the assurance you might get from pre-ordering physical goods doesn’t exist here.
Please don’t do it.
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 2 months ago:
I haven’t played it, but I’ve seen Garry’s Mod mentioned a lot.
- Comment on Day 505 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Thrower is a viable build in this game, and there is a source of rats in Act 2. :)
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 2 months ago:
The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
“Calls to scrap” the disclosures make it sound like a societal movement, when in fact it’s just two people with obvious bias: Tim Sweeney and some guy who promotes Tim Sweeney’s products on youtube.
I hope this doesn’t seem overly rude, but I don’t give a flying frog what they think. When I allow someone to sell me something, I like to know what’s in it.