The bigger issue is that reports currently don’t federate. A report will always go to the admin of your homeserver (which might be you) not the admin of the homeserver the room you’re in is on, nor the admin of the homeserver of the other users.

Most larger (1-2k people) communities get around that by just having you ping the mods in reply to the offending content, which is a band-aid.

A spec for federated reports is apparently being worked on, but not yet available.

A discord server-like would be a space, containing channel-like rooms. The main difference is that rooms can also exist independent of spaces, if you just need a single chat for some people instrad of a group of chats.

You can set permissions for a whole space, it’s just that they currently work differently than Discord. Members have a power level, and you set the power level from which each function is available. So, e.g. Sending messages from Pl 0 (representing normal users), banning users from PL 50 (representing moderators), changing server settings from level 100 (representing administrators).

It sounds complicated, but once you get used to it it’s pretty easy.

Matrix is not

With LiveKit for calls / screen share, it is for my group. Though I’m not saying it doesn’t have issues.

will never be

Community-developed homeservers like continuwuity have gotten a lot of new support on the last few weeks. Clients like cinny are getting pretty close to a replacement ux wise (if you look at PR2599 on Cinny’s GitHub, they are working on and will soon merge support for LiveKit in a way that is very close to voice channels).

I also generally think that the only way to replace Discord as an ecosystem where you talk to many people from different communities is a federated protocol, not a bunch of new silos, one for each community.

Yup, typo. It is lit, though.

I have deployed LiveKit for my homeserver yesterday. I’m not gonna lie, it does involve a bit of work, but once it’s running it is very seamless.

I had a brother laser printer with a pre-heating roll that went bad. Sourcing a replacement for that was pretty annoying. But I get your point.

They are a relatively established game storefront, and have been at it for over a decade. Same Corp that’s also behind CD Projekt Red.

In the end, any storefront that distributes executables could in theory distribute malware, but I’d honestly be more worried about steam, since their publishing process seems a lot more automated, with less oversight.

I’d argue that gog might be a bit better, since you can download executables from their website, and then use them offline, without telemetry. But still, I think neither are necessarily all that relevant here.

Sounds like a win win. Maybe I should work on getting more flexible.