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Stop doing Discord
- capitalists were not supposed to own your community
- Years of hanging out yet no real-world use found for sending your private data to be sold to advertisers
- Wanted to leak private data anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that; it was called “turning off ublock origin”
- “Yes please search our chat archive for answers to your question. it will certainly remain up forever and not get deleted when the shareholders realize it’s not profitable” statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Look at what discord admins have been demanding your respect for all this time:
- task manager screenshot, discord using 97% of CPU
- discord making too many automated requests and getting throttled
- crash screenshot
“3rd-party client? lifetime ban”
They have played us for absolute fools
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The best that I could find was that there was an 8 person limit and that it wasn’t at straightforward as Discord at all.
It’s still nice to see them trying and hopefully one day it’ll be a viable alternative to Discord itself.
The best that you could find?
I am personally unconvinced it’s not a viable alternative to dsicord already. But yes it will always be improving and it will be good to see how far it continues to improve.
I recently was setting up Synapse on my NAS, and installed Element, which had a login I’d previously used on the main Matrix server. I stared at my nearly-empty window looking for anything that might guide me to get some information, find some channels… SOMETHING.
On Discord, once I’m on a server, I immediately have channels. And there’s a list of servers along the left side that I’ve joined.
AFAICT, you have to search for chat rooms yourself (or have links from elsewhere, I imagine?).
And while that’s not hard, it’s very much indirect and inconvenient.
If I convince someone to join me over on a Matrix chat server and they make an account and then all they see is an empty chat with a “Look for rooms” button, that’s a lot of work to get started.
Also, I don’t see any way to have specific communities to join which come with a set of rooms already, which is one of the biggest benefits IMO of Discord – the sense of a “community” of discussions.
And it may be that these things do all exist already; but the fact that I don’t just see them and can use them out the gate without research… that’s a major hurdle to ask people to overcome for most users.
Yep in the 2 or so minutes I bothered to look it up there was some fancy looking website about it being in beta.
Serious question, can you join multiple homeservers yet? Having an account tied to one server is a massive drawback compared to Discord. I tried Cinny earlier and currently use Element with my friends but I don’t think that feature exists.
Yes matrix account migration across homeservers is possible, though it looks a little annoying so hopefully you’d never need to do it.
I’m not sure what you mean though about being a downside compared to discord. In discord’s case, your homeserver is the discord service. In matrix it could be one of any number of servers. But unlike discord, you can talk to those other home server users.
It would be like talking to someone’s steam account or facebook messenger directly via discord. It’s actually more versatile in this regard, far moreso. Your discord account is locked to discord’s walled garden, a matrix account is not locked to any walled garden.
So if I’m on a self-hosted matrix server I could join rooms in any number of other matrix servers (just like joining communities across Lemmy instances)? That’s a game-changer if that’s the case. I have no idea how to do that within Element.
Yes that’s the central idea of matrix. Element is just the client interacting with the matrix code, there are likely guides for self hosting Matrix. I don’t think it’s trivial though, a secure messaging system is a bit heftier than a public facing messaging board, but I am fairly confident people familiar with self hosting could do it.