I’m curious as to what Fediverse folks prefer. Discord is kind of everywhere.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      6 months ago

      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.”

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 months ago

        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.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        6 months ago

        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.

  • lil@lemy.lol
    10·
    6 months ago

    I’m not a fan of proprietary things like Discord, GitHub, Reddit, etc

      • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        Don’t seem very dead to me. I found quite a bit of people to talk to. There’s an awful lot of chatter for a dead place.

        • shapis@lemmy.ml
          0·
          6 months ago

          It’s there though? I’ve been trying it for a while and even the most popular rooms are just dead.

          • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            Well, I have absolutely not has that experience. I’m in quite a number of rooms and have trouble keeping up with them. And so generally don’t keep up to date with all of them.

          • abbenm@lemmy.ml
            0·
            6 months ago

            Are you sure that you actually know how to browse the rooms? I just opened my app, and I see, just for some examples, Linux gaming, vegan, and pine 64 all having activity within the past hour or so.

            I mean it’s no discord by any stretch, But you’re actually straight up saying that even the most active ones are 100% dead, there’s something going on with how you’re browsing and looking at the rooms.

            I feel like one of the biggest communication problems with stuff relating to open protocols or fediverse stuff, is that no one knows the lay of the land, there’s no broadly held consensus of whether things are active or not, what the culture is like, and you end up with people making confident matter of fact statements that are just transparently not true based on cursory examination.

            When Mastodon was new, reporters would just make matter of fact claims that one of its downfalls was that instances couldn’t connect with each other, even though that was called federating and just one of the most basic built-in features. Not that I’m the biggest fan of Blue Sky, but now that people are talking about blue sky, I’ve seen people just matter of factly claim that Blue Sky was 90% furry porn and rage bait. A totally outrageous claim, not even remotely aligned with my experience, but, just because there’s no settled consensus about what’s going on, there’s not really any disincentive for someone just coming in and randomly saying that.

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    5·
    6 months ago

    Signal! Obviously, it doesn’t scale, but for my friends and family, it does everything we need.

  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    6 months ago

    I’m on both, the one friend I message on matrix conveniently also hosts our instance.

    Nowadays I very rarely use discord (only for server voice channels, because it’s just better). The few chats I still have on discord are bridged into matrix.

    For many of my friends it was easier moving them to Signal though instead of matrix.

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    51·
    6 months ago

    Everyone I know uses discord, and any attempt to try matrix with friends has more friction than discord. We often make use of streaming gameplay to each other, and I don’t know if that functionality works in matrix because we never get that far.

  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    3·
    6 months ago

    I have a Matrix client installed for some communication with some users from my instance but I don’t really use it. I don’t use discord either.

    Pretty much just WhatsApp and Telegram, and Slack for work.

  • bradboimler@kbin.social
    3·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • vortexal@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 months ago

    I have an account for both but I don’t really use them. The only thing I’ve done on Matrix was upload a profile picture and the only thing I use Discord for currently, is just to keep up with the updates for AI Dungeon because for some reason they’ve decided that the patch notes shouldn’t be accessible in the actual game/website anymore and have moved them to a completely different platform.

    I’d probably use them more but I haven’t found a Matrix chatroom that I would actually consider using and most of the Discord servers I’ve actually considered interacting with act like cliques.