The one silver lining of commercial apps shitting the bed (or shitting on their users) is that it helps accelerate development of FOSS/decentralized/federated alternatives because of the sudden interest.
Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet
Submitted 15 hours ago by artyom@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
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scytale@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
Maybe that would help because I have a really hard time understanding how matrix works.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
honest question, what is there to understand? it sounds you already got through registration so you are through the hardest part which is choosing a provider.
drmoose@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
What is there to understand? It’s just a decentralized protocol - in fact, you don’t need to understand to use it. Just connect to chat server like you’d connect to one in discord.
pennomi@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This seems like the better alternative to discord than the other centralized platforms
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
Is there a reason for not being centrally distributed like on flathub and fdroid?
Magnum@infosec.pub 32 minutes ago
Someone has to maintain that.
artyom@piefed.social 5 hours ago
No idea.
Bababasti@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Looks good, I fiddled around with it for a bit. For now, I prefer FluffyChat. I‘m actually wondering how little it is mentioned in the recent pop up of discord alternatives / matrix clients given how polished and easy to use it is.
northernlights@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Good on mobile but on desktop the UI is way too big i find
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Saving this post for later when the inevitable happens.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Maybe I am just stupid but I can’t verify my commet session.
artyom@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Welcome to Matrix
eodur@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Ugh. Another one that doesn’t support OIDC.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The ui still kind of feels unpolished in commet. I tried it out two days ago, but ended up going with element instead. Just felt better to use
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No macOS or iOS support, but looks clean.
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Just install as PWA.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You’re a freaking genius, you know that?
Ill do that and give it a whirl. Thanks for the PWA tip, i had completely forgotten about that.
mp3@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Flutter? No thanks
thehamzan6@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What’s wrong with flutter?
spez@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
God please let matrix figure out text channels and better calling 🙏
timestatic@feddit.org 14 hours ago
But… They already have text channels pretty much figured out and are on better calling rn with Element Call
XLE@piefed.social 13 hours ago
The messaging experience between Discord and Element is night and day. On Discord, I open the app, go to a server, and can see all the rooms and all the messages almost instantly.
On Element (at least on Android), chats from different communities intermingle with my groups. I tapped on a large and slown group, and watched messages slowly lurch into view as most of the messages were “join” and “leave” ones.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The last couple updates made it better, but I wouldn’t exactly call Element a smooth experience. For example it recently began to try and access a keyring that doesn’t exist, ignoring the one that I already have readily available, and that works for everything else.
This is the latest in a long series of frustrating experiences with Matrix in general. To this day, Element isn’t stable, and Element X is somehow worse. It is, imo, a very promising option, but it is also far from perfect.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yeah I just set up a synapse + livekit server last night. Voice, video, and screen share rooms work flawlessly
Billygoat@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Isn’t that its purpose?
vermaterc@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Yeah, that’s the idea, but they are still not there