icosahedron

for some reason being organized kills all motivation i have to write lore, so i just started keeping a single massive markdown note with literally everything i think of written down as nested bullet points. so far for a setting that i started last week, my note doc is a a complete organizational nightmare but i'm like 15k words in. i means it's not like anyone else is going to look at it so who cares how unreadable it is

is there any particular reason for using gurps instead of cyberpunk red?

i usually put spaces around em dashes because it's slightly more readable. i hate LLMs so much

element call is a standalone service (call.element.io) that the client just integrates really well. since it's not actually part of the homeserver deployment, it should work fine even without synapse. that said, it means traffic passes through a third party server unless element call and the client are also self hosted. but yes, you're right that other clients currently do not support calling. luckily, cinny is relatively close to merging a PR that adds it

yes i second matrix. it's different from discord in a lot of ways, but it's still a pretty seamless transition. for anyone who wants to host matrix, i recommend the continuwuity homeserver software. it's much easier to host than synapse and is significantly faster for 99% of use cases

if you're just trying use matrix, i prefer cinny over element for the client. cinny's ui is also very similar to discord's and it handles space/room grouping very intuitively. there's also fluffychat (less feature rich) and schildichat (element fork), among others. however, element is currently the only client which fully supports voice chat

for instances, i recommend choosing something other than matrix.org. right now, matrix is barely decentralized because the vast majority of users choose matrix.org, which isn't great. also matrix.org collects a lot of data and requires more information to register than most servers. some other good public instances are:

• tchncs.de
• unredacted.org
• catgirl.cloud
• calitabby.net

there are also many, many smaller public instances, but it's probably better to choose a relatively big one for moderation reasons. a lot of people think matrix is dead or no one uses it, but there are plenty of active communities if you know where to look

for your friends who refuse to quit discord for some reason, matrix's ecosystem also has lots of bridges. if you're willing to self host, i recommend out of your element. the only caveat is that it doesn't support e2ee rooms

arctic. i think it's been abandoned sadly

4get https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get https://4get.ca/instances

lots of public instances which tend to be very stable + it's extremely easy to self host. in my experience it's significantly better than every other proxy search engine

:(

4get is my new favorite

my understanding is that:

• nonbinary: identifies in any way that falls outside the woman/man gender paradigm. this includes but is not limited to agender people, and some other examples are genderfluid, bigender, and xenogender identities
• agender: lacks gender entirely or does not identify with any particular gender

so all agender people are nonbinary, but not all nonbinary people are agender

i think synapse is just kind of awful. i'm running a continuwuity (fork of conduwuit) server, and it's been incredibly straightforward and painless compared to synapse

also colorado here. just rained where i'm at for first time in a couple weeks, still getting above 30c most days