• ptsdstillinmymind
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    591 year ago

    Matrix has always been a great alternative. Any service that is owned by a corporation will eventually be monetized. I never liked discord in the first place.

    • @lilweeb@beehaw.org
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      221 year ago

      Matrix rules, but I can’t get my friends to leave Discord because that’s where all their friends are, they run servers, etc. it sucks.

      • Scrubbles
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        81 year ago

        Getting friends to leave facebook messenger for discord 8 years ago already, never underestimate how much the average person can ignore. For the time being I’m on discord, but if they start cracking down on small servers I’ll be spinning up alternatives overnight

      • MentalEdge
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        My instance is discord bridged. If a discord user wants to voice chat, I fire up discord just for that.

        But my discord text chats and servers? All in matrix baby.

        Makes it a lot easier to convice friends to swap, too. Especially when I show them that telegram and whatsapp can be bridged, too.

        Everything in one app.

        • Jeena
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          11 year ago

          I have that too, but you have to be admin to be able to do that, and I didn’t figure out how to connect the 1-1 chats in Matrix yet.

          • MentalEdge
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            Once you have the bridge plugin set up, you need to talk to it in matrix to set up your stuff. Just open a chat with whatever your config says its username is. I set mine to be @discordbot

            • Jeena
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              11 year ago

              I have it set up with rooms where several people are in but have no idea how to set it up in 1-1 rooms.

              • MentalEdge
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                Oh, you’re using it for just bridging group chats.

                For one to one you need to link your matrix account to your discord account using the !login command. After this you can access everything that your discord account can access. Manually managing anything except for which servers you want bridged is completely unnecessary.

                • Jeena
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                  11 year ago

                  Oh that sounds much better, I’ll try it.

                  • MentalEdge
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                    21 year ago

                    Ah, there’s more than one bridge available. I am using mautrix-discord, if you are using matrix-appservice-discord, mautrix has a far superior featureset, full double-puppetting, server bridging, typing notifications. It is also in more active development.

      • @jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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        51 year ago

        Matrix won’t seem to let me on via my vpn so I can’t even download the client on my computer. Makes it hard to see what the fuss is about.

        • MentalEdge
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          101 year ago

          You’re comment makes no sense. Matrix is a federated chat protocol, and works kind of like lemmy. Matrix itself has more in common with ActivityPub, the protocol that the fediverse uses. What’s more comparable are the matrix clients.

          There are many, many matrix clients to choose from, and even more instances, including the option to set up your own.

          • @jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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            11 year ago

            Idk what I did wrong both times I tried before, but sites would not load. Today, I got to the search for homeservers and was able to sign up.

        • Veloxization
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          31 year ago

          Which client? There’s a lot more than Element, including clients like Nheko and Cinny.

          • @jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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            01 year ago

            I think it was element, but some more searching got me on a server. Now to find rooms I guess.

      • Maxe
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        31 year ago

        this feels like back in 2015 when I was trying to get all my friends to go from TeamSpeak to Discord because it had Text & Media Channels and you didn’t have to pay for the server

        • GuyDudeman
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          51 year ago

          The Element app for it works pretty well. There are some edges to smooth, but it functions.

          • Veloxization
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            41 year ago

            And if Element isn’t to your tastes (like it wasn’t for me), there are other clients to choose from. I use Nheko on PC and FluffyChat on my phone.

    • 2d
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      21 year ago

      Revolt.chat is far nicer than Matrix usability-wise

      • RosalynKirk
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        What’s to stop Revolt from becoming the next Discord?

        Edit: I just logged into my account to see that Revolt had removed a “server” for breaking foreign (unjust) laws. That seems to go against everything the fediverse stands for.

        • @Kaldo@beehaw.org
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          How can revolt “remove” a server since you can connect to any custom hosted server? It’s like saying lemmy removed an instance.

          And besides, I’m pretty sure that is something that federated instances will have to worry about too, you might not care about your local laws but the ISP or hosting provider of your server where possibly illegal data is, will care.

          • RosalynKirk
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            No it isn’t. The default is to be hosted on Revolt servers. I created a “server” and I didn’t set up any kind of server, so it’s not running on my server. I don’t really know all the technical details, I just signed in and saw a message that said the “server” was removed.

        • ragemidi
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          11 year ago

          @RosalynKirk

          1.) because Revolt isn’t trying to do federation. It’s community driven open-source project not backed by a company.

          2.) you can easily self-host a Revolt server. Then you can make your own rules.

          Not everything has to be federated

          • RosalynKirk
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            …is Discord trying to do federation? I’m confused.

            Someone is in charge of Revolt, doesn’t matter if it’s a company or someone else. Someone is in charge of the servers. What’s stopping them from ultimately selling the company? Reddit didn’t start out as a corporation. Nor did WhatsApp, but after creating a trusted userbase they were sold off to Facebook to be exploited for data.

            IT people love to talk about how “easy” it is to create and run your own server, but this is simply not true and they just lack awareness.