In what ways?
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Skavau@piefed.social 1 day agoMatrix just isn’t up to it. It doesn’t function the same really. It doesn’t feel the same.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Its buggy, it just doesn’t really look like Discord. It is a chore for new users to use. There’s no useful community discovery.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
That sounds like a frontend issue. Not a protocol issue
littleomid@feddit.org 1 day ago
Don’t go looking for a 1 to 1 drop in. That mindset won’t work much. Same case wit expecting windows to work the same as windows: they’re just different and have to be learned in their own ways.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Right, but it almost doesn’t matter because no-one is actually using matrix in the same way they might use Discord. It just isn’t being used socially for hobbies and interests and a part of that is it’s design and bugs and tedium getting set up.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
You can’t choose what order channels are in, for one thing
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
That sounds like a frontend issue
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 day ago
That might not be a bad thing. I hate Discord. That might come due to its usage though. It’s just not made to organize technical support.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Well yes, that’s the problem. Matrix is just used for tech/troubleshoot issues and it’s buggy as hell.
It isn’t a social experience like discord. It is a gap in the fediverse
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
matrix can absolutely be a social experience. check out the 196 blahaj chat: matrix.to/#/#196-Blahaj:chat.blahaj.zone
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Its uses are few and far between. It seems to me a hypothetical federated Discord client needs to adopt the same model as the fediverse with community lookup functions where disord instances would federate with other discord instances and be able to browse rooms, in something akin to the Discord Discovery tool.
Matrix just doesn’t offer that at all.
NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I exclusively use Mateo for social experiences. I’m in servers and group chats for clubs, communities, and even Lemmy instances. Works great
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
How did you find them? How many people are in them? There’s no hub for community discovery for matrix-based communities, to my knowledge.
As I said in another comment: It seems to me a hypothetical federated Discord client needs to adopt the same model as the fediverse with community lookup functions where the discord-like instances would federate with other discord instances and be able to browse rooms, in something akin to the Discord Discovery tool.
scholar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do you use voice chats in the same way that Discord allows you to? Can you hop in to an empty voice channel without having to initiate an end to end call?