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 4 months ago
So, what do we use? Matrix? Element? Idk?
tron@midwest.social 4 months ago
ytg@feddit.ch 4 months ago
Mailing list! (/s… unless?)
camelbeard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Open source communities have been around longer than the internet, so they can manage fine without discord.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 months ago
For synchronous communication? Element, Zulip, Rocketchat (or if you really must, IRC 🤮 ), just something opensource and privacy respecting.
veloxization@yiffit.net 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago
Maybe a free and open source forum software. There are a few out there, maybe you used one before.
trbleclef@lemmy.world 4 months ago
IRC has been working for me for at least 25 years
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
IRC is the vim of chat.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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