I’m down for more chat rooms, especially the alive and kicking rooms.

Which rooms y’all in, and roughly how busy are they?

  • BrooklynMan
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    1110 months ago

    so… is matrix like discord, but a decentralized version of that?

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Not really, it’s more like Whatsapp. I don’t know why people keep comparing it to Discord.

      • Kierunkowy74
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        810 months ago

        Because its default interface (Element, by Matrix developers) looks like Discord

        • TmpodM
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          10 months ago

          Still a ways off, to be frank. Matrix is first and foremost a room-based chat platform, like Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram. It gives you the option to organize channels into spaces and subspaces, but they still lack the cohesion and first-party-ness of Discord servers.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        In Element (an app that uses Matrix protocol) you can basically organize yourself as in Discord. Rooms/Servers with subchannels that you can invite people to and distribute admin/mod rights.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          How do you do that? I have Element but all the chats I’ve joined are organised as single channels.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            I guess it is up to the person creating the channel. There are “Spaces” and “Rooms”. Spaces are the equivalent of discord “servers”. But rooms can also be created outside of a space, making them similar to a group in Telegram/WhatsApp.

  • @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    Been using Matrix with a few people for a few months now and am quite happy. I made the move after Signal decided to kill off support for SMS.

    • I am tired of first parties dictating the usage of their platforms. I’d like a bit of ownership.
    • Signal’s seamless bridging between sms and encrypted messaging was the entire value add.
      • TmpodM
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        10 months ago

        Which was an Android-only feature already. It sucks that they’ve removed it, the long-hold action on the send button is now used for the scheduled send feature.

    • @Cmdrd
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      110 months ago

      Is it possible to subscribe to a Matrix room from Lemmy without having to have an account on a Matrix instance?

      • @smorksA
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        210 months ago

        no, that’s not possible. Matrix uses it’s own protocol.

  • @[email protected]
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    29 months ago

    Not really. I’m more of a XMPP user. And I think Lemmy could have a separate field for XMPP also instead of only having one for Matrix. XMPP’s good

  • @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    It was hard enough to get my family to switch from WhatsApp to signal. I think matrix would be a step too far. I do have account myself but haven’t seen too many active rooms.

  • @[email protected]
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    010 months ago

    I’ve been using matrix for a while, I just use it to talk to my friends. I prefer using irc when I need to talk to strangers.