About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.
Matrix Manifesto We believe:
People should have full control over their own communication. People should not be locked into centralised communication silos, but instead be free to pick who they choose to host their communication without limiting who they can reach. The ability to converse securely and privately is a basic human right. Communication should be available to everyone as a free and open, unencumbered, standard and global network.
The only real Discord alternative is https://revolt.chat
It’s not e2ee but it is FOSS and you can self host. Also, unlike Discord they actually have discriminators
It doesn’t federate though. So if you stand your own “discord” server up, you can’t message anyone and have to ask people to join it. Matrix allows you to not just set up your own server but also interact with everyone else’s servers so you’re not isolated. Revolt is nice, but you’re, like discord, limiting yourself to a single instance who has access to everyone’s data.
yeah thats the main reason I’ve not given it a try myself, I dont want to have to make an account for every server if lots of projects decide to host it them selves
Last time I checked it, it was said to be very buggy. How is it doing now?
I have not had any bugs in all the times I’ve used it
Someone needs to hook revolt up to a matrix homeserver. I’m kinda surprised there still isn’t like a discord UI clone matrix client along the lines of how elk.zone is a twitter UI inspired frontend for mastodon. Having not used discord much I’m not sure what’s really missing, maybe it’s just the stricter adherence to spaces on the left bar and the lack of non-current-space-related channels listed above the current space’s channel list.
Tbh I kinda hate how discord works (and how impossible it feels managing being in 30-40 servers and figuring out which server that doot-doot sound came from when at least 10-15 at a minimum have unread badges even 30 seconds after I mark everything everywhere as read), but I do love the look and feel.
Check out cinny.in. I use this on my desktop browser and it looks similar to the Discord UI.
Thanks for mentioning this, looks perfect