I’m curious as to what Fediverse folks prefer. Discord is kind of everywhere.
Both are way too complicated. Bring back AIM.
ICQ!
mIRC!
Matrix when I can. Discord where I just (and usually only I’ll be online only during that period, while I engage actively in discussions on matrix).
Teamspeak.
Sadly I am on both, discord for friends and projects and matrix for social and projects
I use discord to talk with friends who use discord. I tried to use matrix but it seemed like a hassle and there’s no chance in hell that anyone I know uses it.
No. I know it’s supposed to be a spiritual successor to IRC but the vibes aren’t the same.
- [Jeffrey Paul] Discord is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects
- [Drew DeVault] Please Don’t Use Discord for FOSS Projects
- [Matthew Cengia] Stop Using Discord for Your Open Source Communities
The first two links are the same
I will add “a fucking chatroom where they ban you for political reasons and there’s at least 3 accounts testing the water for how much nazism they can get away with and if you report them to the mods/admins they say they don’t see it and then ban you for wasting their time.”
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That isn’t solved by Matrix though.
I guess it depends on how feasible it is to create a crawler and search engine. If you had bots crawl discord servers, continuously index everything, and then create a search engine for it, you’d probably be breaking their TOS and they’d C&D you. But I don’t think there’d be anything preventing someone from doing that on matrix. Matrix is just as decentralized as the web.
I don’t think that breaks their tos as long as the server owner consents, official bot API allows you to go through chat history
Yeah probably, though any good search engine starts by presuming consent until the owner explicitly says otherwise (robots.txt), and discord would probably take issue with that.
I mean in this case consent is enforced by the fact they’d need permissions to add the bot (if it was done properly and not via a self bot which would break tos)
Ah right, users and bots are treated differently. So yeah, in order to crawl disc servers without first asking every single one permission, you’d have to break the ToS. I have no idea if matrix has a separate “bot” type account.
Really, I think the matrix protocol needs some kind of support for this. I mean, both discord and matrix do, but I don’t think discord would ever do it.
Every single one meaning every server owner and not every user in the server I’m guessing?
Could definitely market a bot that generates a wiki from discord (maybe manages ticket, has git integration etc) to people who run these things though it’s not like the server owners are deliberately locking away their documentation and much of them have ticketing bots already
Discord. I have yet to find even one other family/friend that uses Matrix.
I don’t do centralised social media any more, and that includes discord. Matrix all the way
Matrix for sure
I’ve made a space for all my peepsMatrix
I’m not a fan of proprietary things like Discord, GitHub, Reddit, etc
I’m kind of nostalgic for mumble, it was so the rage around 2010. You just needed a server, which is where it failed.
I mainly use Matrix for myself, my family, and have rooms set up for a community.
Discord I have and use as a couple groups of friends are still and basically every game dev uses Discord now and you have to go to Discord to find out any info about the game, look up tips/hints, or even report bugs. FUN!
