We know most of you were thrilled about our Discord server, so we decided to make you even happier with our very own space on matrix!
There is an announcement room for all the latest and greatest about Lemmy World: https://matrix.to/#/#announcements:lemmy.world
A General channel where everyone is welcome to join and talk: https://matrix.to/#/#general:lemmy.world
And lastly, this one is more for admins of other instances but we have opened a "LW Defense HQ" room which we want to use in our ongoing fight against spammers: https://matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world
Come join us!
EDIT: Madlad @ruud@lemmy.world was easily convinced to set up a lemmy.world matrix server. So I edited the links to the new space and rooms. The old ones still work too!
That means you can now also sign up for a Lemmy World matrix account. Instructions in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/3443207
Same idea as Lemmy except for chat. Basically Reddit is to Lemmy as Slack / Discord is to Matrix. One minor detail is Matrix is actually the protocol, so it's more like ActivityPub (which is Lemmy's protocol), and there are specific apps for Matrix which use that protocol.
Thank you for this explanation!
You're welcome! Glad I could help.
No, it has some differences. We don't have channels but spaces, which in discord terms are groups of different discord "servers". For example you can create a Lemmy space with different rooms (matrix equivalent of discord servers) like general, coding, fediverse etc. Inside the Lemmy space. Currently video calls are a bit finicky but it's still pretty good. Especially with E2E. For a complete clone you can use rocket.chat
that's the alternative approach that matrix took. Probably has to do with technical things I don't know about. But they a little bit inconvenient and less smoother than what discord has.
#general, #gaming etc. in discord. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/3298872
Lol sweet. I will set it up after work.
I had no idea that’s what it was for. I hadn’t added mine for fear of spam but this makes way more sense now.
Same same lol my brother in gentle confusion
it's for channel - room communication. It works well, unless you have a spam problem on matrix because then they bypass the anti-spam protections of discord. but if you don't have a spam problem, it's great
https://t2bot.io/discord/ is a free discord bridge you can use or host your own since the bridge is fully open source
Follow these steps to get a lemmy.world matrix account: https://lemmy.world/comment/3443207
Yes but no. Yes, technically possible. No, I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for - you’d want to create your own bot for your own account (each user needs its own bot), and it’s technically against Discord TOS to use, so use at your own risk.
Can you share what type of bot you’re using? The last time I tried this, I had to add a personal app key for the bot, which was linked to my account. It created a bunch of discordbot profiles, one for each user in my contacts, and added them to the server. I’m not positive but I think that anyone who messages these profiles will be messaging my contacts, though I think they didn’t appear in the directory by default. Either way, if anyone wanted to setup a new user, they would need to go through the same process I did, which includes having admin access to the server.
Where did I go wrong?
Minecraft server next. 😃
Have you seen me in the movie theater recently yet? I can't promote it, but the movie is still playing.
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I guess it's just a federated version of Discord.
You mean you don't like having to pay for Nitro just to make your profile icon an animated .gif, a feature which costs the developers literally nothing?
...Yeah, me neither.
I honestly think it's nice. You're paying for mostly cosmetic stuff and the core Discord experience is unaffected.
I'm not sure if they suck or have shady businesses, but I have never felt the desire to pay for Nitro. I hope they manage to get profit with such an unremarkable set of perks.
Only used Lenny for a couple months now. But there seems to be a very strong extremist undercurrent in most groups.
In this case, if it's not FOSS and 100% FREE is a trash service/application.
You learn to just tune it out after a while.
Reddit was great... until it wasn't.
Building communities in somebody else's backyard is problematic because if your community gets popular, you're stuck there. History has shown us that for-profit social sites/apps that grow large always turn to crap when it's time for them to actually start making a significant profit. I haven't seen any reason to think that Discord has figured out a way to prevent that. Have you?
Something similar is even a risk with Lemmy because there isn't really a way to migrate a community to another server if the admins of the one you pick change the policies in a way you aren't OK with, or simply shut down the server.
Discord has decent UX and the voice channels are great and easy to use, it's far from garbage, just because it isn't open source and technically matrix is mainly made/maintained by one company who made it at the same time, they don't own it and there's a separate entity the matrix foundation which is non profit which owns the actual spec and all that stuff but the majority of stuff done in the spec was by element/new vector
just because it isn’t open source
You’re going to want to support projects that share their source with the world. Otherwise, how do you know what you’re actually using? You might want to give a read through discord’s TOS and make sure you’re comfortable with what they’re doing.
technically matrix is mainly made/maintained by one company who made it at the same time, they don't own it and there's a separate entity the matrix foundation which is non profit which owns the actual spec and all that stuff but the majority of stuff done in the spec was by element/new vector
Right. If it’s open source, the public owns it. You own it, as does New Vector and the Matrix foundation. You run the servers, or your friends do. You decide the terms and conditions. You extend the server or configure it in the way you like.
The difference here is that Discord is a black box operated by one company. Matrix is an open box operated by you or people you trust.
Well @ijeff@lemdro.id here is an admin for the lemdro.id instance and we have @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com in this thread from lemmy.dbzer0.com ..
"there are dozens of us!"
Its closer to a texting app from my experience
Matrix is a federated protocol to build real-time data sharing apps. Mostly focuces on chat apps.
It has flexible model of rooms. You can create room with 2 people that behave like WhatsApp chat, invite more and you have group chat, make room of rooms (called spaces) that works like Discord communities, also there are video rooms in the way that would work like mix of Discord voice channels with invite links like Zoom. Room is decentralized across multiple servers and to add people you eather invite or create a public alias (like #general:lemmy.world).
I've not had any luck joining any of these rooms. I click the link, continue with Element (the web app), I can see that I'm logged in and can access a room I've already joined (for moderating another community), but for these rooms, I'm just getting:
#lwgeneral:h-y-p-e-r.space is not accessible at this time.
Try again later, or ask a room or space admin to check if you have access.
M_UNKNOWN was returned while trying to access the room or space.
If you think you're seeing this message in error, please submit a bug report.
EDIT: the updated links work for me now!
I think most people should avoid the matrix.org home server for increased decentralization.
At this point there should be a brand-new domain: matrix.world 😎
You now have a cool @lemmy.world matrix account. From there you can join rooms by clicking the links in the top post.
I'm set up using Beeper for consolidation of a lot of my messaging platforms, and they support Matrix. That said, I'm not having any success in finding the listed spaces from the urls in the original post. Is there some kind of federation that needs to take place for this to be possible or, I dunno, is there some extension of Matrix that needs to be supported by Beeper for this to work?
Beeper doesn’t just support Matrix, it literally is a Matrix client and server.
I'll be honest, as always I prefer to get status updates on Mastodon and beyond that, Lemmy isn't a chat system for me, it's more of a forum-style interaction system.
But hey, I can see the need for chat in particular for mods, so cheers! 🥂
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Now, you could take the fucking red pill, right? Spend the rest of your life jacking off, crying into your chai tea green latte, what the fuck. Or... you could take the blue pill. Or is it the red pill? Anyway, take the other pill and quit being a cunt.
Because they don't want you to regain your consciousness.
So glad and honestly relieved to see ya back up and running. More options are great.
Discord, anti-libre software, does nothing to defend us from a rug pull: does Discord really think we're stupid enough to fall for its scam.
Questions end with a question mark.
Why Matrix (which from my experience is closer to a texting app) instead of Revolt? I haven't used it personally, but Revolt looks a lot closer to Discord in terms of features and the usage experience.
It depends on what you are interested in!
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I'd be happier if LW worked every day and more people were brought in through engagement and outreach.
Should've gone for pigeon courriers!
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One of the things I love about Lemmy is finding out about new things. Now I get to figure out what matrix is!!!
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