That’s good news. Hopefully it will gain traction among individuals as well as a viable Discord alternative

“Made on the same assembly line means it’s the same product” is a myth from people who have no experience in manufacturing/sourcing

You’re right, I have absolutely no experience in manufacturing or sourcing. If I did, then I probably wouldn’t be posting to ask about it on /nostupidquestions

Yes matrix is decentralized like the fediverse. As far as I can tell none of these other suggestions people are making use decentralized technology (though I might be wrong about that)

I see

Very interesting and potentially useful information. Thank you!

Yeah. In my experience it’s more complicated than Discord but not as complicated as the fediverse. But either way, even if we can use this as an opportunity to boost its popularity among techy people then that would be a win in my books. Hopefully one day someone will come along and make a front end for Mstrix thats as frictionless to use as Discord

Yeah especially if OP sticks with their Mac. The WiFi drivers won’t work on Mac without proprietary drivers

Also worth noting: you don’t need to get ride of MacOS to try linux! You don’t even need to make any permanent changes to your computer. You can also just boot from a USB and see how you like it. This is different from adding the distro to your computer with a USB. Because when you’re just booting from a USB it doesn’t make any permanent changes to your hardware; it literally just runs linux off your USB. Files won’t even be saved between sessions (unless you really tinker around with it, but even then the files will only be saved on your USB). This is a low risk way to play around and check out how well different distros work on your Mac.

I suggest trying Ubuntu. It’s super beginner friendly and has great documentation which should guide you through booting from your USB. I put Ubuntu on my Mac back in the day and it worked great but the speakers didn’t work because the drivers weren’t open source. You should boot Ubuntu from a USB and play around with some sound sources to see what I mean. Since this will likely be the biggest problem you face with Mac its worth checking out before making permanent changes

We need more than a discord clone. We need something that is structurally capable of avoiding these kind of top-down attacks. We need something decentralized. I think something using the matrix protocol would be a good fit

Self-hosting a matrix instance might be an okay alternative. And because its decentralized its not really possible for it to have top-down age verification imposed on it, if it ever does get popular

Yeah there’ve been a couple other people on this thread that have said the same thing. Seems like so long as you’re sober and healthy then it should be fine

Yeah I live in a cold climate and wake up from getting cold all the time

Are there any lawyers in here that can tell us how likely this thing is to succeed?

I feel like we’re just going in circles now

There are certainly more ethical implications to the science of consciousness than there are to other sciences, but I feel like that’s a different discussion

Very interesting take. I think you might be onto something. Similar to the concept of ‘fan death’ in Korea. I’ve heard it’s often the go-to cause of death when the real cause of death is considered embarrassing or shameful

That makes sense. But I feel like the warnings about not falling asleep in the bathtub are often handed out generically, including to people who are perfectly sober and in good health

Yeah thats why I’m so sceptical of this whole thing. Like, wouldn’t you just wake up before drowning?

I guess if you get some water in your lungs it might make sense that you struggle to get enough oxygen. I guess it depends on how deep of an inhale you take before you notice and start to wake up

Yes some stats would be nice. If it were really that dangerous to fall asleep in the bath I think it would be negligent to let children take unsupervised baths, yet kids do all the time (at least I did when I was a kid). I think thats because most people intuitively know that drowning is not super likely