Hi all, I’m new here on Lemmy and had never even heard of Matrix until I logged into Beehaw. I see frequent references to the “enshitification” of Discord, but I’m a bit OOTL on that.

What’s your preference between Matrix and Discord?

Any particular reasons or just a preference?

    • damn@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m really glad Discourse has caught on because of how nice its UI/UX is. Although I’ve seen complaints in the Arch Linux community that it’s not as lightweight or no-javascript friendly as more traditional forum software.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      for a lot of purposes yeah–in the example i used though it’d be a lot more about just having stability of community than anything, rather than some objection to live chatting. there’s very, very little cost to self-hosting a small forum and we’re a community of <100 people who mostly grew up on forums, so it’s a fairly natural switch to make.

        • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Agreed. I think it has it’s place, like, “we, a select and small group of people are doing this thing together right now and need someplace to chat about it in real time” or for very small groups of friends/family as an alternative to occasional group text messaging.

          But, when I see FOSS teams use it as their primary mode of communication with each other and users, with multiple conversations going in parallel and talking over each other, I’m dumbfounded. How do they find that productive?