Element is just a client, while Matrix is the chat protocol. But yeah, I have recently switched my discord server to a matrix instance and its been pretty great. Some pushback by users who didn’t care about privacy or security, but overall the tech is solid. We didn’t like that discord was moderating private chats and they don’t offer any type of encryption.
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Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So, what do we use? Matrix? Element? Idk?
tron@midwest.social 1 year ago
ytg@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Mailing list! (/s… unless?)
camelbeard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Open source communities have been around longer than the internet, so they can manage fine without discord.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
For synchronous communication? Element, Zulip, Rocketchat (or if you really must, IRC 🤮 ), just something opensource and privacy respecting.
veloxization@yiffit.net 1 year ago
I think the point here is that anything that can be indexed by search engines or archival crawlers would be better, so not Matrix either. Forums, for example. Like what happens if the Discord community gets deleted due to whatever circumstances? All of that gathered knowledge will be just gone with no way to recover or search for it.
technom@programming.dev 1 year ago
Anything else that can:
- Segregate topics clearly, without stuffing all of it into a single stream
- Can be queried from a web search engine.
Discourse is a great choice - it meets both criteria. Even phpbb meets the requirements.
Even Zulip is objectively better than Discord. It meets point 1 very well. I don’t know how well it does in point 2.
sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 1 year ago
Maybe a free and open source forum software. There are a few out there, maybe you used one before.
trbleclef@lemmy.world 1 year ago
IRC has been working for me for at least 25 years
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
IRC is the vim of chat.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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