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m_randall@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoAs far as self hosted I’ve heard a lot about matrix but haven’t tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot this weekend.
There’s also telegram, slack, etc if you want something else commercial.
Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I’ve convinced few of my friends to use Matrix and it has been a really nice platform and now I prefer it to Discord not only because it respects user privacy but also because it doesn’t have the nitro bs
AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 10 months ago
Does Matrix have video calls by now?
Urist@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
They are just using an implementation of Jitsi for the time being. Long story short: Yes, but they are still working on it.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Only if you use Element. Seems like the new Element client is making it even better, but afaik no protocol level support: element.io/…/element-x-now-with-embedded-voip/
m_randall@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s great to hear. Somehow everyone and everything is on discord now and I really am not a fan of it what with all the pop ups and flashing shiny things to buy lol.
I’ll try to get my smaller groups on matrix
brian@programming.dev 10 months ago
you can run a bridge. I forget that friends are on discord sometimes bc it’s so seamless, and they can’t tell I’m not sending messages from discord either. I do have to use the discord app for voip tho
Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah I still have a lot of friends that just refuse to get off Discord but at least I got a few people to move like I said
m_randall@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Someone replied to me that you can run a bridge and never even know. I’m definitely trying it out now. Sick of all the nitro ads.