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untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not as feature rich, quite buggy, inherently more private but also less usable.

  The above compounds when trying to get the non-techies to use it, because sometimes it doesn’t just work

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  • 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)

    Once set up I find it OK as a user

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  • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, the official desktop app is essentially unusable.

    Fractal is pretty good but less features.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not great. It’s missing discord features like screen sharing and voice rooms (only sort of has them through a third party app, Jitsi, but that experience is… not great).

  It also has moderation issues, lacking tools needed to keep spam out and easily control it when it does get in.

  I recently deleted my account because there was a spam wave sending out room invites to anti-trans named rooms, and there’s no way to mass ignore, you have to click on every invite, click ‘ignore’ and wait like 15-30 seconds for the server to process.

  Related to the above it has performance issues, a lot of UI actions just have a delay to them making the user experience feel really crummy.

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• dumbpotato@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Matrix suffers from some pretty poor design decisions and implementations.

  I expect its flaws to get ironed-out over the years, but right now people switching from discord to matrix will find their experience severely lacking.

  To give some examples, video chatting is not as inuititive in matrix. You can’t even test it on your own without being in a server with specific permissions that allow you to use your camera when nobody else is around. Really fucking stupid design decision.

  Another example is the lack of channels. It’s mind-boggling to me how they’re not implemented yet. Matrix will never be competitive with discord until that changes.

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• tatann@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I made a few friends switch earlier this year and for our use case it works

  Minding we only need a text chat during the day for shitposts, cat GIFs, and the occasional “Gaming tonight ?” “Fuck yeah” “For the Emperor !”

  Then we use it for voice chat during the gaming session

  To be honest, I don’t think we could have switch if they weren’t a bit tech-savvy and willing to struggle a bit with the encryption at first (but now it’s setted, it works with no issue)

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• swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like it, personally, but I don’t use voice chat.

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