You can just search terms right within Element to find public “rooms” (like a Discord Server). There’s rooms for all kinds of things. There are private rooms, too, but someone in the room would have to send you a link to it.

I love the Element client for Matrix. I use it with my friends and I have joined a lot of communities on there. It’s Discord-like, but I personally find it much easier to navigate than Discord. It’s free, open source, decentralized, you can self-host if that’s your jam, it’s got some solid security and usability features, call quality is great, and I’ve found it to be very stable and reliable. I’m a little biased because I personally don’t like Discord, I find the UI clunky and unpleasant to use, but I love using Element. If you love Discord, you will find Element familiar, but you may or may not appreciate the differences.

Dantotsu, hands down, imo. Great UI, lots of extensions and configurability but simple to use.

Today shall be remembered as the day the rogue penises finally won.

I’m seriously considering going AMD for my GPU. I will sorely miss DLSS and good raytracing performance, but Nvidia driver support on Linux (and honestly even on Windows sometimes) is just terrible.

DraStic is amazing on midrange devices. Compatibility is excellent in my experience, there’s a lot of UI customization available, and there are some nice filter and scaling options built-in. It also has full controller support.

All of this is right, plus AppImage provides portability. I have all of my emulators in AppImage format in portable mode on a portable drive so I can move it from one PC to another and have all my games, configs, saves, etc.

Came here to say this. IMO, the 8bitdo controllers are the best out there.

Oh, weird! 😯

This is the offical one, way more going on lol: !freemediaheckyeah

I’ve been using it for a long time. I’ve personally found that there is essentially no impact on gaming performance–or if there is, it’s so slight that it’s totally negligible on midrange hardware, especially with feral gamemode. It might be more impactful on low spec PCs, I would assume, but I’m not sure of that. In my case, it’s plenty lightweight and offers lots of customizability.

Newpipe + Sponsorblock is a really good option.

I didn’t know that we did, but yes, apparently! lol :O

That is awesome.

Hmm, I wonder if this could be aadapted to a Stremio plugin.

It’s too bad they don’t offer a complete list of known patched VPNs. They just give like 5 example ones. It’d be really helpful to know if my service has patched already or not.

Beto O’Rourke was a hacker??

Honestly, I migrated from Mastodon just when Calckey (now Firefish) seemed to be gaining more traction. I looked at available instances, and this was one of the first to pop up that checked most of my boxes, being that it is a generalistic instance (skewed a bit toward video game/nerd culture), was up-to-date and properly utilized HTTPS, and had limits I was cool with (character limits, drive storage, etc.). I later found out that it’s run by a tech YouTuber I admire, so that was a nice bonus.

My only complaint is that there aren’t many custom emojis. lol

Ew. I’m on easymode.im and it’s a lovely Firefish instance, I don’t see any shit like that.

I adore Calckey/Firefish. It’s amazing software, but these are both pretty bad names. lol

I guess Firefish is better, because it sounds like software you’d want to use and not something you have to put up with to file a tax return, but also… why?

Absolutely. I use the free consumer-tier version every day. Just download the app, sign up for a Matrix account, and go.

https://element.io/download