seriously, if you’re looking for a proper FOSS discord replacement i cannot stress enough how good the new Sable 2.x releases are.
to name a few things that make this really fucking cool, it has:
- an actually working mobile client available in the play store and soon the iOS app store (if it isn’t already)
- voice/video channels, forum channels, etc.
- spaces set up as a feature-complete replacement for discord guilds with roles, categorization, permission syncing, etc.
- detailed discord-like profiles with status (including per-space/channel personas)
- cool features you would have expected to see in a golden age IM like custom fonts, colors, rich text editing, etc.
- decentralization with federation via the matrix protocol
- end-to-end encryption available for both DMs and guild channels (unlike a certain slop discord clone that’s been making the rounds lately)
- awesome maintainers who actually listen to the users and aren’t chuds
- a policy against vibecoded PRs
- a cute animal mascot (including a trans flag variant)
if you’re new to matrix, try this. if you’re already using matrix, try this because it’s better than the other clients (especially element)
idk, i’ve never run into an issue there that couldn’t be solved by just saying “use a better client bozo”. plus if your community is already on discord and you want to move them to matrix isn’t it trivial to say “just use sable”? one would have to go out of their way to use something else at that point.
and is that really unique to matrix and not a feature of every chat protocol, including proprietary ones like discord? no matter what you use you might get the odd user using some minimalist third-party client. shit, i use a minimalist third party discord client whenever i have to go on there.
With matrix I pretty often see people complaining about others using pretty basic features like threads. I don’t think my current client supports threads either.
I don’t know a better way but this shit sucks.
Probably your homeserver, have never had issues with recovery keys
matrix dot org
yeah matrix.org is the worst one lol
I’ve hosted worse
Not even remotely comparable, the grand majority of discord users use the official client while the vast majority of matrix users use a third party client. Additionally Element is not feature complete and most clients are even worse.
i’m not telling anyone to use element or any other client. if i’m inviting my community members from discord i’m telling them to use sable, and they use sable.
what the majority of users are using right now is irrelevant with how small matrix already is since there are very few users and communities to begin with. if you want to start encouraging people to use a viable alternative so that we can finally build something new, this is the one.
edit: also even for the existing communities, the majority of users being on element (right now) isn’t horrible. element’s UX is garbage but it has all the basic functionality you’d need to communicate well with other users, such as: threads, calling, being able to render custom stickers and emojis (it can’t post them but that’s not my problem), being able to render rich text, etc.
I managed several matrix chats in the past and a lot of people in them used clients like nheko, sometimes I would come across a fluffychat user but for the most part on matrix I find if you want to go anywhere you have to appeal the lowest common denominator.