• Looki@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Funny thing is, every time Matrix is proposed as an alternative for Slack/Discord, people say the opposite, i.e. that Matrix is more a replacement for WA/Signal/TG.

    After using Matrix for a while, IMO it’s closer to a personal messenger, since you have less focus on collections of channels (Servers, Categories) and more on single groups and PMs. True, there is Spaces and Threading in Beta, but that is a pretty recent development in the Matrix world.

    But the lines get blurrier anyways, so I don’t think it’s useful to discern between these two kinds of messaging platforms any more

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      3 years ago

      Ok, maybe I should have said Element, i.e. their official Matrix web-client. Which is clearly much closer to Slack/Discord and also aimed at being a team-chat client like that. You can argue that it isn’t a very good one, but even more clearly it isn’t a good personal messenger like WhatsApp etc.