Is this a joke?

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
      135·
      1 year ago

      I mean, you can banish it to a browser, a dedicated even if you really wanted to. Matrix is not exactly the most beginner friendly thing tbh

        • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
          61·
          1 year ago

          No, it’s not.

          Even for tech savy people the security settings (i.e. cross-signing and backups) are confusing and Element points you straight towards them, without sufficient explanations.

          Element is (impressively enough) also much more buggy than Discord.

          • ijeff@lemdro.id
            4·
            1 year ago

            I find it actually pretty straightforward for a non-technical person. The default settings all work fine. The more complicated stuff is relatively buried.

      • nLuLukna @sh.itjust.works
        13·
        1 year ago

        Matrix I feel is one of the better os for newbies You just send them towards element.io. Or at least that’s what I did with my friend, when I wanted them to switch

    • Serinus@lemmy.ml
      314·
      1 year ago

      Is it, though? It’s intended to be a public forum either way. As the MPAA and RIAA should have learned, you can’t really keep a public secret.

      Using Discord just makes that transparent. You’re absolutely being spied on, instead of jumping through a bunch of hoops to give yourselves false confidence that you’re not being spied on.

      Sure. It’s an easy gotcha. But if you consider it a bit more it makes sense.

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
    942·
    1 year ago

    It should be matrix. I doubt anyone who really understands would be using discord. It was probably just copied from the reddit one.

    • themizarkshow@lemm.ee
      201·
      1 year ago

      Came here to say this 👆 It’s really not hard to get started or use, folks just drag their feet on it for some reason.

      • Kaiser Of None@mesita.link
        172·
        1 year ago

        Change is annoying, folk don’t like having multiple platforms to talk with. A network is only as strong as the number of participants in ot, and discord has won that by a long shot. I’d love to see Matrox grow myself.

        • ch1cken@kbin.social
          6·
          1 year ago

          but bridges exist, why not satisfy both communities? So both matrix users & discord users can join from their own platform

      • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
        13·
        1 year ago

        When I started using Matrix I definitely thought “wtf is this”, but after 5 minutes and when I got invited to channels it all makes sense. Much prefer the privacy focused matrix

  • ayon@lemmy.ml
    642·
    1 year ago

    Count me out. Let me know when you revive the chat room on Matrix.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    Matrix is a great discord-like experience. From my experience it’s got different channels, direct messing and a focus it seems on privacy which is nice. Compared to discord that doesn’t even support end to end encryption

  • brzrd@lemmy.world
    111·
    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, why Matrix and not these other options:

    • Jabber/XMPP - has a creat client called Conversations (decentralised)
    • SimpleX - by far the most anonymous and potentially decent privacy (centralised server)
    • Session - a Signal fork without requiring phone number
    • all of the above are listed on F-Droid
    • ColonelPanic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Matrix is also decentralized/federated, has encryption integrated into the protocol and enjoys a broad adoption and public support. It also has pretty good integration of bots and even other message protocol services like IRC via “bridges”. The chat clients are pretty good too; Element is pretty much available for every platform but there’s other one’s which are more focussed on Desktop or mobile usage, depending on how you primarily use it.

    • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      1 year ago

      The main thing they lack is an easy to use Discord to [XMPP, simplex, session] bridge, If they have that then you could just hop on whichever you prefer and be in touch with the group. Love it or hate it, discord is the top chat app for the moment and being able to interact with it is a necessity.

      Matrix has basically come in to place as IRC “2.0” with developers, nearly every fediverse project has Matrix channels, most open source projects in general are starting to have them. XMPP has many years on Matrix but it never took off in regards to that very critical niche of early adopters, developers and power users. XMPP was a good competetor to the web 1.0 chat apps of AIM and MSN but Discord and other apps are much more rich content focused.

      Simplex seems to only have a command line interface for PC, it als owould be pretty clunky for groups i think, I have yet to see anyone advertise a Simplex “group chat” in the way they would a discord server, but perhaps there are examples out there.

      Session is somewhat better but hinges on the success of a cryptocurrency for its continued development so thats a no from me, also seems to have a lot of scammers although perhaps not as bad as telegram.

      Matrix has clients listed on F-Droid.

  • Lolors17@feddit.de
    101·
    1 year ago

    There’s a privacy-friendly Discord out there called Revolt. Honestly, though, it doesn’t bug me if the chat is on Discord. I will not use it, even if it is on Matrix or Revolt.

  • soyboy77@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    Revolt is supposed to be a privacy-focused alternative to Discord. Haven’t used it myself. Is it promising? Will it ever gain traction?

    • Rin@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s promising but it’s very small. I’ve not really found a “home” on that place.

  • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.works
    52·
    1 year ago

    Jeeze! Even I have a discord to matrix bridge and my entire community is like 20 people, I think 2 of us use matrix.