Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s terrible. They’ve had years and years to get their shit together and they still can’t. It’s just horrendously bad.

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  • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I use it all the time. There are many mature clients, and matrix is a protocol, so I don’t know what you mean. Since the sliding sync implementations, I have found it really nice to use.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Don’t know what to tell you. I’m literally unable to read messages sent to me, they all show up as “unable to decrypt”. If I can’t even use the damn protocol then how many clients it has doesn’t matter.

      And I have tried different clients.

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      • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What server are you using and with which client most recently? It sounds like your device is unverified so untrusted or the key isn’t present.

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  • Willoughby@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    they

    Your server, not mine, homie. Shop around for a better admin who actually knows how to install the thing.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So the Matrix admins don’t know how to actually install the thing then? lol not a good response homie.

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      • Willoughby@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The overloaded, overbloated main instance?

        No, they don’t. It either shouldn’t exist or should be broken up.

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  • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed, Matrix works fine as a toy, but it breaks down after a year or two with even.moderate amount of chat.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For me it broke down the second I started using it. I literally am unable to see chats on the only device I’ve ever used to access matrix, they’re all “can’t be decrypted”.

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• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve been forwarded this pretty neat summary of the current alternatives (Mastodon thread) :

  mastodon.gamedev.place/…/116043145998840217

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• ninepointeight@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Slightly related. Does anyone know of any decent Matrix clients (apps) on Android and/or Linux? Because, and I don’t mean to be rude when I say this but…Element is very, very bad.

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Im using SchildiChat on Android

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  • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I like Cinny

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Stoat.chat seems to be a more likely alternative. I love matrix, but I don’t think it can replace Discord. Not yet.

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  • zensanto@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This seems to be like Bluesky vs. Mastodon.

    I see a lot of morons shilling one over the other, so I expect it to be the stupid-platform.

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    • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For me it’s as long as it’s not Discord.

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