I’m sadly still stuck in an edit run right now, but it sounds like a fun premise maybe even for a new novel 😮 thanks for posting it!

Is this spam? It looks a little like spam 👀

Sounds interesting! What’s the sort of tech area you write reports about, some mechanical or science stuff or more like computer tech? And is this more of a journalist or controller type investigative job or more of a teaching and knowledge summary thing you do?

i tend to put my protagonists on at least one of the covers, so for my latest mage college book series here she is: https://bit.ly/45KWjnt (i blanked out the book title so this doesn’t come across as advertising or something)

oof, that’s just sad. i hope people switch, firefox is actually not that bad these days

are you a planner? how does working out a plot usually go for you, do you actually draft out all the major beats on paper or do you just collect enough themes and vague villain ideas to be convinced you can turn it into something later as you go? (the latter tends to be more my approach)

hey, cool to see another writer around! and oh, i love cyberpunk sometimes! i totally get the struggle with book length endeavors, especially given that even when you get to the end you might realize it’s not really up to quality. struggling with that myself a lot. how’s that like that you’re dabbling in so many different mediums including comics, is that super freeing or sometimes also hard to navigate? i’m pretty stuck in my novel tracks for better and for worse, i have to admit.

hi everyone! hoping to find other like-minded authors here!

as for myself, i often like to write fantasy, scifi, or some sort of thriller urban modern world setting but with fantasy or scifi in it! i usually work on novels, non-fiction or poems aren’t really my area of expertise. so far my works aren’t published yet, but i got already 2 drafts close to ready with multiple revisions, hoping to make a nice start once i’m ready to throw them out via self publishing. some current events, including the whole climate disaster happening, have certainly had an influence on it, also that i’m maybe sitting inside a little too much with curtains closed to focus on my work (oops). there’s often a lot of apocalyptic vibes, societies crumbling, inequality, and such going on.

i also like to include lgbtq+ representation, and often it’s a bit youth focused although more for older teens if anything, the topics can be a bit gritty. i’m curious to hear what everyone else who might join here at some point is up to!

For what it’s worth, this is a long rabbithole on the whole e2ee thing so just in short:

From what I gathered poking around in the past XMPP’s OMEMO seems to have had shakier protocol design often leading to silently lost messages if you use multiple devices (I asked around among devs what it actually did and why, would take a while to explain) while Matrix usually has noisily lost messages so you can try to resend. So since that happened to me I’ve abandoned XMPP personally, I wouldn’t know why these differences existed or whether it was fixed since then.

(Regarding group chats, I also think e2ee is still useful there, can limit leaks a little if you use history since joining and ban leakers if possible.)

hi i’m new! i would be interested in a matrix chat about climate stuff if there ever is any, xmpp seems a bit wonky with its encryption in comparison or it was when i last used it