Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down
bishbosh@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoIsn’t replicating this the goal of spaces? How are those doing on matrix?
Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down
bishbosh@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoIsn’t replicating this the goal of spaces? How are those doing on matrix?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is, you aren’t wrong. But the invisible eye of corporate Discord is not the same. Discord makes you feel like you are in your own space. I found from the servers I am in on Matrix it feels, decidedly less like that. Revolt is a 1 to 1 replacement for discord that is lacking a lot of features. I’d push people to that over Matrix if they are used to discord and just want that again. I’m not even gonna mention Guilded to people.
bishbosh@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah I can see what you mean. Even if it is just a sectioned off bit of the glob of discord servers, a discord instance does feel like an island in a way that a matrix space does not. Last I remember using them it was still a little messy in ways that felt strange too. The real struggle is having folks to check them out with considering many of my friend group already had to be talked into trying discord lol.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I get that but that isolation you get in the “server” you make on Discord does make people feel they are on their own island. Especially tech illiterate people. You can get the same in Matrix. But the way Matrix does things is just different.
bishbosh@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
My main experience with it was setting up a little space on the matrix.org server. We could in theory venture out into the broader server, but never really bothered. So it definitely wasn’t exactly discord, but worked well for our needs of having a couple rooms and the option to hop into a persistent video/voice room with jitsi.
I’ve never touched the server side, but I am a little curious, especially with the QR account creation someone else mentioned. Not needing to walk folks through logging into another service, and instead just having it be a webpage they visit that stays working would be rad. How did you find running the server?