I’m down for more chat rooms, especially the alive and kicking rooms.

Which rooms y’all in, and roughly how busy are they?

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      Not really, it’s more like Whatsapp. I don’t know why people keep comparing it to Discord.

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          Still a ways off, to be frank. Matrix is first and foremost a room-based chat platform, like Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram. It gives you the option to organize channels into spaces and subspaces, but they still lack the cohesion and first-party-ness of Discord servers.

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        In Element (an app that uses Matrix protocol) you can basically organize yourself as in Discord. Rooms/Servers with subchannels that you can invite people to and distribute admin/mod rights.

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          How do you do that? I have Element but all the chats I’ve joined are organised as single channels.

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            I guess it is up to the person creating the channel. There are “Spaces” and “Rooms”. Spaces are the equivalent of discord “servers”. But rooms can also be created outside of a space, making them similar to a group in Telegram/WhatsApp.

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    Been using Matrix with a few people for a few months now and am quite happy. I made the move after Signal decided to kill off support for SMS.

    • I am tired of first parties dictating the usage of their platforms. I’d like a bit of ownership.
    • Signal’s seamless bridging between sms and encrypted messaging was the entire value add.
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    It was hard enough to get my family to switch from WhatsApp to signal. I think matrix would be a step too far. I do have account myself but haven’t seen too many active rooms.

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    I’ve been using matrix for a while, I just use it to talk to my friends. I prefer using irc when I need to talk to strangers.