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• derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It does have that.

  A “server” in Matrix is a space. A chat channel is called a room. A space can hold as many rooms as you want.

  Fun fact, unlike Discord, a space can even hold other spaces in it!

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  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But as far as I can remember, you can’t administer the rooms in a space as one. Like you need to be invited into each separate room.

    Not saying that you couldn’t add that, I’m saying they don’t seem to want to “do what discord did”. Which is a bummer since the success of discord clearly shows what would be needed.

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    • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But as far as I can remember, you can’t administer the rooms in a space as one. Like you need to be invited into each separate room.

      Nope, again - I don’t understand who told you this. When you’re creating a room in Matrix you can make it either public, invite only, or only joinable via membership in a specific space.

      Here’s a screenshot of the room security interface:

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      Not saying that you couldn’t add that, I’m saying they don’t seem to want to “do what discord did”. Which is a bummer since the success of discord clearly shows what would be needed.

      You are correct in that they “don’t want to do what discord this”: recently (and you can see this in their apps like EleX) they’ve transitioned to looking and acting more like modern mobile chat apps like Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram - a decision I’m assuming they’ve made as most of their funding comes from people who want a replacement for those apps and not Discord.

      Regardless, just using a Discord-like client (e.g. Commet) is enough to get the experience you want.

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