Hi all, I’m new here on Lemmy and had never even heard of Matrix until I logged into Beehaw. I see frequent references to the “enshitification” of Discord, but I’m a bit OOTL on that.
What’s your preference between Matrix and Discord?
Any particular reasons or just a preference?
Discord is very frustrating to me, especially the Linux client which has had countless bugs outstanding for years. But everyone I want to talk to is on Discord. Every game I play has its community on Discord. Every tournament I enter is organized through Discord. I don’t see all of that packing up and moving to Matrix ever. I haven’t even tried Matrix at all, because nothing I’d use it for is over there.
Completely agree. I’d love to convince the masses to stop using it and migrate to Matrix, but I just don’t see that happening. Discord’s UI is so simple for the average person. It being a privately held for profit company definitely means some day it’ll go the same route as twitter/reddit/etc… And then maybe then we’ll see matrix fly up in popularity. Who knows.