I’m curious as to what Fediverse folks prefer. Discord is kind of everywhere.
Lots of my friends are only on discord so I have to be to reach them. I do also use Matrix though
Matrix for sure
I’ve made a space for all my peepsNo. 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
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
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.”
A Hindutva fascist gave me death threats on Discord. I reported it to admins and they claimed they saw nothing. I understood most of Discord that tolerates rightwingers are shithole places, and it is best to stick to my own friend circles and more professional and/or leftist places.
I wish i could matrox but all my friends use discord and aren’t willing to switch
Discord. I have yet to find even one other family/friend that uses Matrix.
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.
You know what they say, it’s easier to turn Matrix users into family than family into Matrix users
No
I’m lucky enough that a couple of my friends are willing to use Matrix to message me, but most communities I’m a part of are on Discord.
I don’t do centralised social media any more, and that includes discord. Matrix all the way
I went through a Discord phase as it were. I ‘run’ three servers but the only one that matters is the one for me and my buddies to organize our D&D games and just chat.
One of the others is for a guild in a game I still play and manage the guild for and the other is for an RPG book I was working on that never took off.
I’m in a Discord server. I’d love for some folks in there to try out Matrix but I’m too scared to ask. Even if I wasn’t there’s still the issue of Matrix being too techie.
i’m a huge matrix stan, but i understand the key and password thing is difficult for the general public.
Neither. I have a discord account to get into a group relating to an old game. Never heard of Matrix. What do people use these for?
Looks like a decentralized Activitypub protocol from what I see
No, ActivityPub is not part of Matrix yet. It currently acts mostly as a decentralised chat ecosystem.
