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At least this time they attempted to present the other side of it. Not like the article I shared earlier this week about an upcoming ban of the phrase “from the river to the sea” in Queensland. The ABC quoted the LNP, pro-Israel advocates, and the Labor opposition’s tepid “uh, we kinda like it but think some small pieces are bad”. But didn’t reach out to a single Palestinian supporter.

Man idk who this Hurley guy is, but he seems pretty fucking desperate to lick some boots. A professor of criminology? Is he an ex-cop or something?

Re the bike officer incident:

Whether it was justified or not, of course, is an unknown question

No, mate, it’s not. You crash-tackling him and then 4 of your mates charging to join in is not proportionate to anything an unarmed civilian could have delivered.

Re the guy restrained on the ground who was repeatedly punched:

“The police were trying, as far as I could work out, to get his other hand out,” he said.

He said there was no way for the police to know what was in the hand that was under him or whether it posed a threat.

Nope again. The video shows clear closed-fist punches. Not justified, regardless of anything else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Wait, there are still ABC stores?

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

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.

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.

Yeah absolutely I’d be willing to do my part there if needed.

Wow very nice!

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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.

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.