• @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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      1 year ago

      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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          1 year ago

          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