You can probably find plenty of similar results for every alternative by making a search like that.

Trying to find relevant information that’s supposed to be in a Discord server is one of the most hair-pulling aggravating experiences I’ve ever had on a computer. I mean seriously, any aspiring software developer of any kind should outright feel ashamed if they are relying on Discord for anything related to their project. Code repository sites are free, made for that purpose, and already offer everything necessary for collaboration. If communications are necessary, that’s what email is for - everyone has it already.

And yeah I also hate the over-dependence on Facebook. If a companies “site” is their fb page, they don’t get my business.

These things are successful not because they’re good. It’s because they’re easy and convenient. That’s the biggest thing we need to keep in mind when it comes to alternatives.

Yeah to be honest, as a regular user I find Matrix’s ux to ve at least somewhat less of a clusterfuck than Discord. Some things are still unintuitive, but that’s nothing rtfm shouldn’t be able to fix.

Maybe we can use this as an opportunity to use different tools for different purposes. Text chat is the easy part, evidently. The issues seem to be around voice/video/group chat on one side, and forums/wikis on the other.

What we need to recognize for one thing is how Discord makes it easy to host info repositories, but sucks at making that stuff accessible. We need a decentralized platform that makes it easy for someone to sign up and create their own forums and wikis in a user-friendly point and click manner that Discord does, but makes those same hubs optionally public and viewable for users without having to join anything.

Then for more live-oriented stuff, Matrix is already the most mature, established, closest thing to Discord we have. We just need it to be better at voice, video, screen-sharing, etc. If I understand correctly, that’s already being worked on.

Hell, maybe the former could very well be implemented on top of Matrix itself even.

I might try that someday, but I’m probably not going to do another OoT playthrough unless it’s a modded version with a lot of new content or something.

I love these decomp projects though. Really looking forward to the SotN one being finished. A lot of great romhacks and stuff are already coming out of it.

I don’t think I agree. It was a worthwhile design historically, because it was the first controller from a major console maker that said, “hey, 3d gaming is here, and it’s here to stay.” But I never found that controller to be very good. That joystick was so poorly designed every n64 controller we would get would turn to junk within a year. It also wasn’t very long before Sony took the hint and released the Dualshock, which basically defined modern controllers right there.

Especially now, I can’t think of a single game that wouldn’t be better to play on a modern controller.

I’m looking forward to using emulators to force older games into something like modern dual analog. Megaman Legends works pretty okay like that so far. Armored Core works pretty amazingly for it as well.

I need to try it with Fur Fighters, which I always felt had a lot of potential as a platforming third person shooter. But it only has one built in dual analog control scheme that works backwards - right stick is movement, and left stick is aiming. Now I can switch it!

Developers themselves were often in the dark as to what the best control schemes were back then. For example, the default controls in Quake games were not originally wasd plus mouse, that innovation actually came from prominent Quake players which eventually became implemented as default in games after.

Yup, one of my first experiences with this was during a splitscreen multiplayer match of TimeSplitters 2 with a friend who was already clearly well-practiced and highly competitive. Sink or swim they say.

I keep researching alternatives, and every time I circle back around toward Matrix, despite criticisms. Part of it is a question of what everyone is using. I pretty consistently see that groups who use or used to use irc are now using Matrix additionally or as a replacement.

Part of me would like xmpp to be the best answer, but I’ve yet to see an implementation that handles public communities well, particularly for anything that functions at all like Discord. Matrix seems to be at least gaining voice/video chat support?

The last time I looked into Stoat (back when it was Revolt), they had basically no cryptographic capabilities enabled. Have they added any e2e features at all yet? Like, the overall impression I got from them it is that it’s being developed mainly by someone who seems pretty new to programming in general, and that makes me feel pretty cautious.

I remember I used to frequent a web developer message board on GameFAQs years ago. The number of active users on that board at any given time was probably less than 10. Even so, there was still a very obvious Microsoft pr sockpuppet who would go out of their way to use every opportunity to slander Linux.

Never underestimate how pathetic a corporation can be.

This is a little bit of a myth, but also a little bit true. Virtually all plant-sources of protein have all essential amino acids. It’s just that legumes have a slightly lower amount of one amino acid compared to what’s in our muscles, and grains have a slightly lower amount of another. So while they do complement each other and ensure plenty of all amino acids, it’s also actually not that hard to get all necessary protein from one or the other just by eating a bit more of it.

In other words, if you go a day or even a few days only having grains or only having legumes, it’s probably not going to hurt you, so there’s no need to be overly concerned about protein combining. But in any case there are other reasons why it is better to eat a variety of foods, so getting grains and legumes is still better.

There’s often a confusion between people who go “whole-food plant-based” for personal health reasons, and people who go vegan which is about animal’s rights. Of course a person can want both too.

In any case, people who adopt more plant-centric diets do often see a reduction is bodyweight, but it’s not guaranteed. As the pic up top shows, it can still be very easy to have an unhealthy lifestyle even if it is plant-based.

Pretty much. Recently got a device for Meshtastic, need to get around to playing with it. If I recall, SearX is an open-source search engine yeah? We should mod it to explicitly block the corpoweb as a whole and strictly favor results from foss and federated sources.

I ran into a similar issue, tho in my case I let the moderation slide because my deleted comment was admittedly harsh and inflammatory.

Still, we do need to start publicly calling out the presence of what is a clique of suspiciously dedicated anti-vegan users. Sorry, but if you’re that obsessive and committed to derailing and (in the case of complicit mods) silencing the voices of people who are just trying to persuade the world to be a less violent place - then you either must have a financial/material conflict of interest that veganism threatens - or your life is just very, very sad.

An anonymous person has claimed that the meat industry paid them and others to discredit veganism online.

The person revealed this information within an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) post – effectively a virtual, real-time Q-and-A – on Reddit at the end of November.

The anonymous person said that an unspecified US-based meat industry trade group paid them USD $17 per hour for a year to “go on sites” and “discredit veganism.”

https://plantbasednews.org/news/meat-industry-paid-to-discredit-veganism/

I have two, they are flexible, and I find them obnoxious to have to use. I specifically chose my current phone because it has a headphone jack, and I won’t make the mistake of missing that again.

Prove it.

It makes no sense to say it’s for a very small segment when we weren’t given the choice in the first place.

No, bluetooth is not great. Just because you don’t use something doesn’t mean other people are like you.