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@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • '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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  • 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.

  • '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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  • 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.

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

  • '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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  • 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.

  • '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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  • Wait, there are still ABC stores?

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

  • '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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  • 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.

  • '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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  • 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.

  • Circuits #849 2026-02-10

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  • Wow very nice!

    Dog person?

  • Circuits #849 2026-02-10

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  • Crossherd #339 2026-02-10

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  • '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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  • 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.

  • '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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  • 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.

  • '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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  • 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.

  • '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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  • 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.

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

  • '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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  • Discord has E2EE?

  • '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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  • 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.

  • Help making sense of IPs and A records

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  • 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.).

  • Anyone else got this?

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  • Interesting. Is that a perspective used among psychologists?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Zagorath @aussie.zone
    2019

    Aged care workers charged over alleged dementia patient fight club

    www.9news.com.au /world/aged-care-workers-charged-over-alleged-dementia-patient-fight-club-us-news/b935cf17-286c-41e7-858c-0f45fba18e4b
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    because he's focusing on the world under-20 championships in August

    Australian sprint star Gout Gout will not race at 2026 Commonwealth Games

    www.theguardian.com /sport/2026/feb/08/athletics-australian-sprint-star-gout-gout-to-miss-2026-commonwealth-games
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    Kangaroo accidentally hops into the middle of the tour down under

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

    www.xda-developers.com /made-my-home-lab-immutable-with-terraform/
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Coalition on brink as Nationals quit shadow ministry

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-21/nationals-coalition-littleproud-ley-hate-laws/106254676
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Threat of Coalition split as three Nationals quit opposition frontbench

    www.smh.com.au /politics/federal/three-nationals-shadow-ministers-expected-to-resign-from-opposition-frontbench-20260121-p5nvoj.html
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Woolies' new AI system fundamentally changes the role of the shopper

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-20/woolworths-google-ai-items-shopping-groceries/106243642
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Banning hate groups in Australia | Constitutional Clarion

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-18/peter-dutton-election-loss-liberal-party-report-delayed/106240876
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-11/fallout-amid-writers-week-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah/106217646
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    $2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays $20 for all island deliveries even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited

    Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge

    honey.nine.com.au /money/woolworths-delivery-new-additional-fee-for-sundays-public-holidays/3c592b68-144d-4ae3-a6ed-354a32932dd9
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2026/jan/02/australias-red-and-yellow-beach-flags-can-dangerously-confuse-tourists-is-it-time-to-change-them
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    What to look for in building/buying a server?

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    The UCI rule changes for 2026 you need to know about

    www.bikeradar.com /news/the-uci-rule-changes-for-2026-you-need-to-know-about
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Nextcloud AIO containers all stuck on "Starting" on Synology on first setup

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/it-took-years-to-come-up-with-a-plan-to-cut-road-deaths-and-just-11-days-to-kill-it-20251129-p5njg5.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    theconversation.com /australias-roads-are-full-of-giant-cars-and-everyone-pays-the-price-what-can-be-done-268212
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Coalition shamelessly uses tragedy for political gain

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/coalition-shamelessly-uses-tragedy-for-political-gain-20251217-p5nodb.html