#matrix chat

[arenaconspiracy]

hey, are there many [matrix] protocol users around? i've been thinking of finally dabbling & getting familiar with a client and registering an account, but haven't had the energy and haven't taken much time to research clients & home/nameservers that i like; does anyone have any good recommendations?

[echopup-actual]

Social Media Woes

Between posts of cute gay girls, Twitter decided to show me a video of an actual hate crime. Getting back on that site was a mistake in the first place, it's like getting back with an ex because they're hot then remembering why you broke up in the first place. Discord might be adding ads, so I'm looking into alternatives. I need to meet people and find groups that are actually on those alternatives though. I'm thinking Matrix, but I'm not sure and I would have to learn a lot to set it up. Mastodon is amazing if you want to talk about FOSS 24/7, if there's anything else going on on there I haven't been able to find it. Also, trying to use it as a twitter alternative doesn't really work, it's too different. I'm giving Tumblr another shot for now, we'll see how this ends up. I just need to learn how to use it right tbh

[gramoturtle]

Discord Alternatives: Revolt, Matrix (Element)

A friend and I spend a good chunk of the past week looking into Discord alternatives because of Discord speeding up towards enshittification.

We looked into two popular alternatives, Revolt and Matrix/Element, and wanted to share what we found from a non-techie Discord user's perspective. We put our findings here along with articles going into detail about Discord's increasing decline. Feel free to reach out if you find typos, broken links, or outright mistakes!

Personally I've started moving my community to Revolt because it's a better fit for my community, but I will be keeping my Matrix account in case other Discord communities decide to move over there. Depending on what your Discord server needs and techie levels, both can be good alternatives. Neither are outright replacements and both are undergoing development, so both options should continue to improve in the future.

[ice-to-orange-blossoms]

[joeyclaire]

stefan butler paranoia princess

[grongleboy]

see this is what confuses me so much — why is the matrix the Literal Symbol of Truth to right wingers when it’s famously written and directed by two trans women???? like do they know?????? maybe it needs to be pointed out to them more often

[clatterbane]

On that note, any mutuals who might happen to be there, feel free to hit me up on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/@tsula:frei.chat

I am obviously pretty awkward, but that should come as no surprise by now.

[holybagelsstuff]

My first ever chat with Neo on char ai was me asking if I could cuddle him and him saying "yes". Then we did that and he said I'm also the One because I make him feel special. It was like one or two days after watching The Matrix for the first time. I was just so smitten with him 😔💕

[cdeeznuts1999]

aw shit something’s up!

[2-dsimp]

Hi! Um can you maybe please tell me where to start in the yandere otome genshin? I'm so loss right now😭(I'm aiming for when we get to Fontaine)

-matrix anon

It’s on my pinned masterlist right near the top! Just scroll down a little till you find the Halloween spinoff and click on the start! (>^ω^<)

[ice-to-orange-blossoms]

I want to be free. I want to fly.

[zourried]

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[thepandalion]

weirdass dreams squad unite

[flammableengineering]

I have a lot of thoughts on this, but the TL;DR is that I think people should use Revolt. It's open source, their privacy policy says they will never sell your data, and it says they will only share your data with police when required by law (lots of companies will just share it if the cops ask nicely!)

The recommendation for Element comes from a good place, but I don't think it's a good fit for non-technical people. First of all, Element is not a platform, it's a client for the Matrix platform. There are other Matrix clients, and you can spend an afternoon or two looking at all the options. I like end to end encryption, but decryption errors are annoyingly common. It was frustrating for me to use as a technical person, which means there's no chance a non technical person would be willing to put up with that. Also, because of the way Matrix's encryption works, it's categorically impossible for people to see message history in encrypted channels.

You can always use unencrypted channels, but Revolt has better feature parity with Discord. While I love that Matrix is decentralized, it seems like having to pick a home server when signing up is more of a deterrent to the average person than technical people might otherwise think. (This was surprising to me.) Yes, it's really frustrating that the bar to entry must be so low in order to get non-technical people, but that's how it is.

Remember when I told ya'll last month to be ready to start looking for a Discord alternative?

Yeah things aren't looking good for discord.