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timestatic@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If they make the onboarding suck less, sure

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  • quips@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I hear this. What could be better? You make an account and if its federated your done. Login, boom.

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    • D06M4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably the uncertainty of choosing a server and have it either vanish unexpectedly or it’s admins ban your account without prior warning or transparency, which is also pretty common here in the fediverse.

      I always help onboard people choosing one or two longstanding servers they might like. The last time I told someone to just use the matrix.org server to begin (years ago) it had closed registrations two hours earlier. Never again. 😅

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      • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wait but isn’t matrix.org available to anyone now?

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    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But that’s not how it works…

      • Oh you want to get on Matrix?

      Download one of these 8 apps that’s only available through a website or F-Droid, 2 haven’t updated in 2 years, no we won’t tell you which.

      • Then go to one of the 20 million homeservers

      no they’re not servers, it just is where your account info lives, and nothing else

      • Then you have to find servers on your own

      there’s no “Explore” mode, there’s 20 websites that list servers, 5 of them are outdated, another 5 only work on a Tuesday

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      • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Just use the Element client on desktop and Element X on mobile. Use the Matrix.org homeserver by the matrix foundation if you don’t know any other/better choice for you personally. Bam and you’re in. I actually really value the choice in clients tho. With the decentralized way of Matrix there’s lots of options but just pick the mainstream once for starters

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• scala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why would you pick matrix over stoat.chat ?

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  • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because its federated, is also a really nice messaging replacement and is E2EE. If I only want a discord replacement without anything else I’d consider stoat, but really I feel like Matrix just checks so many more boxes. I’ve used Matrix for a long time now.

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    • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t Stoat FOSS too?

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      • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah ofc Stoat is too, I’m just saying what I like about Matrix.

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