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6mo ago

[Meta] allow posts that are not links to recent episodes?
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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago
There's only one mod and they've been inactive for two years. Someone should reach out to admins to get themselves made a mod. And in the meantime, I vote we ignore that rule. In fact, I'll start.

6mo ago

Tips for picking it back up after injury

Oh whoops, sorry I didn't get to this earlier. I have far too many unread motifs in my inbox.

Anyway, I think it's important to clarify some terms. Cadence isn't measured in km/h, it's in steps per minute. You can go the same pace (or speed) with a high cadence or low cadence, by changing your stride length.

Definitely, a low pace is also helpful when recovering from injury. But in my previous comment, I was suggesting taking a lot of very short steps. My theory is that doing that means each step has less force going through it than fewer, larger steps, at the same pace.

Pace, fwiw, is basically the inverse of speed. Speed is measured in km/h, pace in min/km. Though terminology can be weird, because "high pace" usually means "pace with a lower number" (e.g., 4 minutes per kilometre is a "higher pace" than 5 min/km).

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Yeah sorry, I was mostly just making a joke there.

What do we do now that shitty government policies are forcing us off of Discord? Revolt.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

The complaints are definitely fair. It's noticeably less polished than Discord. But well worth trying out to see if that polish is an issue that will actually matter to you.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

I heard about for in the Uk and aussielands, because they are leading the way in subjugating the internet to ai, to id every account

Fwiw Australia's law quite specifically says they can't require ID for age verification, requires that if the user does choose to use ID it cannot be used for any other purposes.

Aside from ID, they're allowed a variety of options for age detection. Most of them seem to have gone with a short of sentiment analysis type technique. They work out you're over 16 based on the fact that your account is 10+ years old (and not many <6 year olds have accounts) or you're talking about politics more than Bluey. That's not collecting any data they didn't already have.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Matrix does exactly that.

I've only used it for private chats, but you can also have a public discoverable chat. And you can sign up at one of many federated servers. The biggest and likely easiest being matrix.org.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Is the third one of these a chat app or a verb?

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Yeah the last thing you didn't bring up was screen share. I've found Element's screen sharing to be rather lacklustre. It's share whole screen only, rather than having application or game-specific sharing (and Discord's gamer-specific feature of detecting you're in a game and immediately surfacing the option to share that is excellent here). And when I've used it, I've found audio from the game doesn't make it through, and I'm not sure if it's possible (I've never really tried looking through all the deep options) to send game audio while also having your mic, without using third-party software to mix the two together into one stream—which would necessarily break your choice detection filter.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Wait, there are still ABC stores?

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Matrix would be great for that. You just need a single room for that sort of thing, and the video support is pretty great.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Hear hear!

Matrix is an ok alternative to Discord for what Discord does.

Support forums are not an appropriate use of Discord, or of Matrix. Discourse is pretty great open source forum software. NodeBB forums even added ActivityPub support! I never particularly like when companies use Reddit as a primary communication method, and for the same reason I'd rather they didn't use Lemmy or Piefed, but all of these are vastly better options than Discord, Matrix, or other un-indexable private chats.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Its only available in DMs not groupchats

Oh right, nice catch. Yeah I only use it as a Discord alternative, so no audio calls for me yet.

Anyway, audio calls in that way aren't quite what I'm after anyway. They'll work. They'll do the job. Just like the existing video calls with webcams turned off do the job. But the Discord style chat room with an assumption of audio only on voice detection, with robust screensharing (including PC audio!) capabilities in an otherwise audio-only call is what I'm really after.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

They added that recently (element-call audio only i mean) its the phone icon at the top

I don't see that. Video, Threads, Room Info, People is all I have at the top of my rooms.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Like the other replies you've gotten, I never really liked "server". It implies something very different from what it is.

Rooms is pretty obvious and straightforward, I think. And to be honest I rather like Spaces too. It's a lot less immediately clear, but there's something ineffable about it that just feels right to me. I'm just glad to see the old Communities feature (which was their now-deprecated first attempt at a Discord-like functionality) is hard to even find out about now. When I first joined I was confused about the difference between Communities and Spaces and had to search to figure out which to use, but when checking now to remember what the old one was called, I found it hard to even find the name of it.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

I would have said Matrix is a kind of hybrid. Obviously Matrix has 1 on 1 chats and individual IRC-like rooms, which are not at all like Discord.

But the addition of Spaces is very much positioning itself as an open Discord alternative.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

I've seen QR-based login before as an option. (Heck, I was an early adopter of SQRL...or tried to be. Sadly that protocol never went anywhere.) But it's not typically mandatory, and I don't think most casual users (the kinds of people who just reuse the same password everywhere rather than using a password manager) aren't likely to be especially comfortable with it.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Oh, it does? I've always logged in with username and password.

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Discord has E2EE?

6mo ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

I and my group are all just on matrix.org. We didn't want the risk of dealing with potentially less reliable servers or federation.

We also use Element desktop and Element X for Android. I think I read that the old Element might have supported audio calls? But these days, it's video only, with the very weird UX of having two different options for video calls (one being, as you say, Jitsi). I assume there's a historical reason for that, but it doesn't make much sense as a design today, to me.

Having Discord-style audio rooms built around the idea that people are not broadcasting all the time (as opposed to the more chat-like design of today) would be one of the most impactful comparatively low effort (considering they already have video calls working) things they could do, IMO.

6mo ago

Help making sense of IPs and A records

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 6mo ago

Your 142.x.x.x will be your public IP address. All devices on your network share that public IP. They all have a unique private IP address too, accessible only on your network. It probably starts with 192.168.x.x, but it could be 10.x.x.x or even less likely 172.16–31.x.x.

If you want to operate a web server that users can go to by typing https://youdomain.com/, you'll need to forward from ports 80 and 443 through to the internal IP address of your server, using the "port forwarding" settings on your router. What port on the internal IP you route to depends on how your server is configured. But a basic default configuration is fairly likely to be 80 and 443, too.

Since you have a reverse proxy, all traffic from your router should go to that. Then you use that to send the appropriate traffic to the appropriate server based on whatever rules you want to apply. (e.g. siteone.mydomain.com goes to server 1, sitetwo.mydomain.com goes to server 2, or mydomain.com/siteone goes to server 1, etc.).