• Bababasti@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Looks good, I fiddled around with it for a bit. For now, I prefer FluffyChat. I‘m actually wondering how little it is mentioned in the recent pop up of discord alternatives / matrix clients given how polished and easy to use it is.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    This seems like the better alternative to discord than the other centralized platforms

    • timestatic@feddit.orgEnglish
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      11 days ago

      But… They already have text channels pretty much figured out and are on better calling rn with Element Call

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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        10 days ago

        The messaging experience between Discord and Element is night and day. On Discord, I open the app, go to a server, and can see all the rooms and all the messages almost instantly.

        On Element (at least on Android), chats from different communities intermingle with my groups. I tapped on a large and slow-moving group, and watched messages slowly lurch into view as most of the messages were “join” and “leave” ones.

        ETA: I tried Commet, and I’m happy to say that while it still has the loading issue and several problems typical to new apps, it does separate private group chats from ones linked to spaces!

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          10 days ago

          On Discord, I open the app, go to a server, and can see all the rooms and all the messages almost instantly.

          On Element (at least on Android), chats from different communities intermingle with my groups.

          are you using the spaces feature in element? that’s the same thing as discord “servers”. they are on the left, unless you have none yet. the default setting in element is a bit silly, you should turn off showing rooms from all spaces when a space is not opened, it’ll be much better.

          on phone the space list is at the bottom.

          I tapped on a large and slow-moving group, and watched messages slowly lurch into view as most of the messages were “join” and “leave” ones.

          which app are you using? element X, or the old, plain element? the old app is slow, the new one should work much better in that regard.

          you can also disable showing name change and membership change events if you don’t care, but membership is good to be aware of and shouldn’t be a problem with element x

          • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            10 days ago

            I think this is a good example of how Matrix does support most of the things we expect from Discord, but the defaults are sometimes wrong (showing rooms from spaces if not in a space), and the sheer number of client apps that are all slightly different and outdated in various ways adds a ton of friction to using it.

  • Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
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    10 days ago

    If the Matrix protocol actually implemented E2E encryption properly I would love to use something like this.

        • Ontimp@feddit.orgEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Wire wrote that article in summer last year to prevent the German IT-Planning Council from adopting Matrix as the communications layer for its consolidated interfederal government-to-citizen messaging infrastructure in the public administration.

          So be aware that, to my knowledge, this article is not a good-faith tech blog post but part of public affairs campaign / lobbying attempt.

          Would be neat to have meta data encrypted in Matrix, but it’s not a deal breaker for most use cases imo.