Personally Matrix has been kind of annoying to set up. I tried it around last year and after a bunch of issues creating an account (email link wasn’t working I think) I used it for a little, then all messages became “could not decrypt” and I gave up on it
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Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoCan I ask why matrix is a ‘no’?
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Screen sharing is broken. Group chats barely function. DMS are more or less non-existent in a realistic manner. Cross-platform voice chats break constantly audio capture with a bunch of different devices. Just straight up. Don’t work. It crashes if you try and do s*** with certain games are open on Windows.
And this is just what I’ve experienced using five or six of the most popular clients from matrix.
Matrix is a pile of crap. It has been a pile of crap. It is unlikely to ever not be a pile of crap. It is basically only acceptable for people who get a boner over security and encryption and have no friends who don’t also have a boner for security and encryption.
It is The shining example of a application designed by engineers for engineers who have never talked to a normal person once in their entire life.
The moment you try and get something like a game guild together in it it breaks and falls apart and s**** the bed. It cannot handle flexible groups like that. It is too overly complicated in the worst ways while also being too simple to be able to handle complicated tasks. It is such a weird catch-22 in almost every way.
If you’re trying to find a replacement for slack, maybe? But not discord.