I will be upfront with this, and say that I’ve never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it’d gotten better in the year or so since I’ve last used it.

This just… Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I’ve tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can’t find a way to change that.

Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can’t.

  • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolOP
    5·
    19 days ago

    I’m not even personally opposed to getting my hands dirty (I run Arch and Emacs ffs) my bigger issue is that this just… Doesn’t feel like a Discord replacement. It feels more like a texting replacement out of the box. Someone pointed out you can make it not show all of the rooms in the DMs list, which would bring it closer to what I expect from a discord alternative.

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
      8·
      19 days ago

      Doesn’t feel like a Discord replacement.

      I think it’s on the way there, but it’ll be a while on the order of years. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to self-host either.