Indeed. Which reinforces what I wroot.

What do you mean by PnP in this context?

Here are some tabletop games that can be played solo:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2819/solo-solitaire-game/linkeditems/boardgamemechanic?pageid=1&sort=rank

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.mən/
• Rhymes: -iːmən
• Hyphenation: dae‧mon

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daemon

Rhymes

• daemon, demon
• freeman
• seaman
• Seaman (surname - see especially David Seaman)
• semen

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/iːmən

It’s somewhat regional. Lots of Americans pronounce the ou as in ouch, but lots of other folks pronounce it as in root (recognizing that route is its root word).

I have deployed LiveLit for my homeserver

Do you mean LiveKit?

an always on chat channel.

I guess you must mean an always on voice channel. Thanks for clarifying.

(For what it’s worth, my groups are using Mumble for that purpose, alongside Matrix, at least until MatrixRTC brings its voice features up to speed.)

offer true jump in /jump out game chat.

What does this mean?

Magic Wormhole comes close. I don’t think it 100% peer-to-peer since there’s a coordination server, but that’s not so different to most P2P programs on the internet, which need something like a STUN or TURN server (or port mapping) to get around NAT.

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Nit: vim is a visual editor. It has a text interface, but it’s not a command line interface.

An example of a command line text editor would be sed.

From what I’ve seen, it’s kind of a mix of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, with a larger map, biomes, and slightly more danger.

Have you played Dinkum? How do you think they compare?

I remember looking at US train ticket prices once, and finding that they cost nearly as much as plane tickets for the same journey. Is that still true?

I kind of wish Lemmy called them rooms, or boards, or something like that. Community is a lot of syllables to say and letters to type. Oh well. I’m mainly just glad Lemmy exists.

The only real difficulty I foresee with users down the line is what happens when people lose their recovery keys.

Yes, the possibility of someone losing their recovery codes is a risk shared by practically all e2ee systems, authenticators, etc. (Have you backed up your Steam Guard recovery codes?) When a user is the only one with access to their secrets, they are also the only one who can be responsible for them.

This is part of why I suggested in my top-level comment that admins coming from Discord leave end-to-end encryption disabled when creating their first Matrix rooms. This keeps things simpler while their users get acquainted with Matrix, and reduces the consequences if someone loses their account recovery key. The point-to-point HTTPS encryption between client and server will still be in place, providing the same level of protection that Discord offers. End-to-end encryption can always be added to a room later, once everyone is familiar with the new environment.

I don’t think it’s meant to inspire confidence.

I think it’s meant to moderate expectations, and give a peek into the current state of an evolving system.

My private groups solved this by using Matrix for text chat and Mumble for voice. It has push-to-talk and outstanding sound quality. Hosted Mumble servers are cheap, and self-hosting is pretty easy.

When Element Call (MatrixRTC) eventually leaves beta, we might switch to that, but it’s hard to beat Mumble for audio.

Thank you for bringing perspective, levity, and humility to an otherwise unfortunate thread. You brought a smile to my face.

Haha…

Imagine Commodore 64 users denouncing a useful computing system for calling its own core a kernel instead of a kernal. (Or vice-versa.)

Discord didn’t exist when Matrix was invented, and Teamspeak was never influential enough in the world for its conventions to matter outside of its own user base.

You seem to be overestimating the breadth and importance of your personal experience.

They just had to invent new terminology.

Matrix predates Discord, and room in this context predates both Matrix and Discord by about 20-30 years. They didn’t invent it.

Server as used by Discord has always been a conspicuous misuse of the word. It’s no wonder that Matrix chose not to adopt that nonsense.