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For me it's Discord, I can't find a good enough self hosted alternative with all the features me and my friends want.
This is a big one. I had no problem ditching the rest and I've been able to slowly get friends and family onto signal. But discord despite its incessant enshittification just has no real alternative. Matrix is the closest thing and it's a clunky, confusing mess.
Plus even if I were to switch, what's the point if the communities I use discord for aren't moving too? They really built a monopoly out of this dogshit app and it's going to be ridiculously difficult to get people to switch to anything else. Hell, look at Twitter - people clung to that shithole for far too long (they still do tbh), and didn't jump ship until bsky came around, which is barely any better. Meanwhile, Mastodon's literally been there the entire time but nope.
Matrix is the logical successor to discord.
We should focus on improving it instead of making something new from scratch.
I'd love it if it actually worked... it doesn't.
It's extremely buggy. I'd rather use IRC, but the features it lacks isn't ok for most people these days.
Just missing like 90% of the features and UI
I wouldn't say Matrix needs 1:1 feature parity with Discord in order to be a viable alternative for a lot of users.
My social circle doesn't typically use the entire suite of features in Discord. Text chat, voice chat, video calling, file sharing, and screen sharing cover our usual needs.
Only if the people behind Matrix just copied the Discord UX exactly instead of making weird choices nobody can understand
We need a “server” with multiple channels that are easily discoverable for everyone on said server. We also need to be able to gate channels behind roles.
Can it do that?
Pretty sure you could do all that on matrix in 2023, maybe not the gated roles, but you can just make a subgroupchat
you can even this on telegram to an extent
discord delenda est
Please tell me how, I’ve been in some actual large communities on Matrix who haven’t managed it because the support for spaces(?) is so flaky