One of the interesting features about Matrix is that it supports some degree of interoperability. The Beeper phone app, for all the fuss about its ill-fated attempts to bridge to iMessage, can connect to Discord for basic no-frills text chat.
I refuse to install Discord on my phone but use Beeper for DMs and group texting.
the problem isn’t switching, the problem is making all the other people using It to switch too, not everyone cares about security or ads
There’s also privacy issues with Matrix:
Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse
Edit x2: I can’t place a parenthesis to save my life
Go, change it! It’s open source.
Right after you promise to convince all their moneyed interests to accept those changes into the repositories they manage
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FOSS does not mean there are no business interests. Think about Mozilla Firefox, Postgres, RedHat, etc.
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Shit takes time bro. We’re all trying not to starve to death here.
Yep most of the communities I like are on Discord nothing I can’t do.
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One of the interesting features about Matrix is that it supports some degree of interoperability. The Beeper phone app, for all the fuss about its ill-fated attempts to bridge to iMessage, can connect to Discord for basic no-frills text chat.
I refuse to install Discord on my phone but use Beeper for DMs and group texting.
I have happily succeeded. While there are some communities that are still on Discord, the vast majority of my friends are accessible on Matrix.