Comment on Would a fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?

• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      matrix can absolutely be a social experience. check out the 196 blahaj chat: matrix.to/#/#196-Blahaj:chat.blahaj.zone

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I exclusively use Mateo for social experiences. I’m in servers and group chats for clubs, communities, and even Lemmy instances. Works great

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In what ways?

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That sounds like a frontend issue. Not a protocol issue

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    • littleomid@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can’t choose what order channels are in, for one thing

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That sounds like a frontend issue

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