Zagorath

Holy shit. I had no idea about that!

Context for the rest of the world:

Chris Minns is the Premier of the state of NSW (Premier being the state equivalent of Prime Minister) in Australia. Earlier this week, on the invitation of the Prime Minister of the country, Israel's President Herzog was in Sydney, NSW to commemorate the victims of last December's Bondi mass shooting at a Hanukkah event. Never mind that he's an Israeli political leader, not a Jewish religious leader who would have any business being there. And never mind that the shooter's motivation had nothing to do with the state of Israel (it was an ISIS-inspired shooting, not a Palestinian one).

Anyway, the event saw huge protests all over the country, especially in Sydney. And in Sydney, the police used some of the most brutal tactics we've seen in this country. "Kettling", where one set of police give an order to disperse, while other police refuse to allow them to move that way, effectively forcing protestors into direct conflict with police. Three particularly bad videos emerged, showing (a) police assaulting Muslims who were down on their knees praying, (b) a bicycle officer who tried to attack a protestor in office clothing, but comically fell over his own bike and tripped, leading the protestor to at first try to reflexively catch the guy, before the officer started beating him up while the protestor raised his arms up in the sign of surrender. Then a bunch more officers came in with full on swinging punches. And (c) a protestor restrained on his belly, as the officer holding him repeatedly close-fist punched him in the neck and around the liver.

At first the police were staunchly standing by the line that they followed all the necessary procedures, public safety, yada yada. The police have since announced that they will be conducting a review, but Minns, the Premier, has still refused to apologise.

NSW premier won’t apologise to Muslims after police grab men praying at rally against Isaac Herzog

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"Alleged+" is certainly an interesting way of phrasing "officially declared by the relevant independent UN commission". That certainly is above alleged.

You're right, the point of the AFL isn't the same as a protest.

The point of the protest is to stop our country's government from aiding and abetting a genocide. Anything else pales in comparison.

Wow, great performance!

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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.