We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well.

Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!

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    1 year ago

    Bullshit. You should use the platform where most of your users are. And the users are on discord and do not give a single shit about open source.

    • This is the truth. Do people not have friends that mainly use mainstream services or are people just elitist about open source? This just sucks, because this kind of toxicity really drives normal users away from open source when more people should be driven to it.

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        1 year ago

        For us it’s about a community where we take care of our users and provide a environment to foster interesting and respectful conversation. Software is just a means to a end.

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      1 year ago

      Why not just use Reddit then? Its simple and all users are there.

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        1 year ago

        Use it for what ?

        Not the same thing, I would use both anyway.

        Especially for a company or a public project, you want your content indexed and keep the control. If you don’t open a subreddit or sublemmy someone would do it.

        For a chat, not the same thing. You want a discord to speak to your users, and a selfhosted matrix to manage your employees and private stuff

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          The reason people use Lemmy is because Reddit has a monopoly and does stupid things. How confident can we be that Discord won’t do this? I’m sure they will because they are a for-profit company. So why don’t we start from a platform that power belongs to the user? It is also tragicomic that a platform like Lemmy.world does this.

          For your argument; I don’t agree. I think Matrix has sufficient features for this job.

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            It has the features (not sure about that), but it has not the users…

            I agree with you but it’s just not how it works. Or else nobody would be using mac os or google products.

            Also currently, almost nobody want/can/care about selfhosting.

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              There are definitely pros/cons. I’m not a FOSS monster. I would just expect a platform whose reason for existence is big corps to be more devoted in this regard.

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                How are we not devoted? We are devoted to our users, not to the FOSS only mantra. I see you run your own instance, I suggest you run that one the way you want it and we’ll do our thing here.

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            For your argument; I don’t agree. I think Matrix has sufficient features for this job.

            He said confidently, without any real experience to back this up

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              1 year ago

              I’ve been using it for 2 months for both private and group chats.

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                1 year ago

                As a user or as an admin ?

                Why should a random admin be more trusted than discord ? (malicious, security, data leaks etc)

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                  1 year ago

                  Matrix has E2E encrypted chats with user controlled keys and open clients.

                  Discord doesn’t, at all, any of that.

                  Why should a random admin who can’t read your chats, be more trusted than a corporation which logs them all?.. well, for starters they can’t read, modify, datamine, profile, or leak, what they don’t have 🤷

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                    1 year ago

                    They could use a corrupted version…

                    Also the risk of data loss, system failure, lack of maintenance…

                    If you host your own shit then yes go matrix why not.

                    If not discord is still better. Maybe one day they’il do shit, at this time this is not the case