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@mcc@mastodon.social that's a good question... reading their docs a little bit it seems like they use matrix just for federation, there's an entire matrix server implementation built inside rocket.chat or something? I always just thought they provided matrix (they're part of the matrix foundation) i guess its more complicated. It appears to be open source though they have a guide for self hosting.

I've been working on an #orgmode parser for kramdown, I thought it was just for markdown but actually kramdown has an API that lets you write a parser for whatever format you want. That means we only have to write a parser, and we automatically get orgmode to latex, html, markdown, and man all at once. So kramdown isn't just a simple markdown library, it's really a general markup format converter! I've only been on this for a 2 days and all it can do is lists, headers and paragraphs, but I still think it's cool to be able to do everything with one gem, and now that I've figured out how the kramdown library works doing the rest will hopefully be alot easier.

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@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social I don't think not having physical media is the problem, it's DRM, online requirements, and copyright law.

@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social but what if the library could compile the games and print their own discs?

@flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social I think you're missing the point... I'm not worried about the libraries, they'll do just fine giving games to kids without sony's help.

@mcc@mastodon.social there are matrix/element setups in europe that are isolated from the network and used for high security government stuff(bwmessenger, tchap in germany and france for example). It's true that matrix shares data with other servers but you have to do that if you're using a federated chat system, although matrix is unique in that a room is basically a gigantic json database replicated completely across each homeserver.

@mcc@mastodon.social you're right about both those things but matrix is the only protocol really well supported outside of things like slack or signal. if you don't care about encryption though there probably are other options. I haven't looked that deep into it but i like the idea of IRCv3 (not sure if they have e2e encryption)

@mcc@mastodon.social rocket.chat is also matrix, I feel for friend trying to change from slack tho, I'm also trying to do that, the matrix clients can be really annoying because they either don't have multi-account or there's some other feature you want that they're missing. you could try to use jitsi alongside it to do video calls with multiple people (matrix only supports one-on-one voice/video) but then you have to deal with a whole separate thing.