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What am I missing with Matrix? (herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol)

submitted 17 hours ago by klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Someone else pointed out Cinny, which is... Pretty close to a discord replacement on Matrix, actually. Also I know Stoat mentioned a few federation options that they'd use if they ever do federate (not on the roadmap), with XMPP being the one it seemed like they'd favor.

Also ngl it doesn't even seem like Matrix would be a good slack replacement, unless the UI you're using makes it more slack-like

Re: Discord section, yeah... I liked discord at the start. It was mostly for voice calls, with a decent chat interface (based on IRC's). Then it started getting used wildly inappropriately, which annoyed me, and then all of the horrific privacy stuff came up and it's just... Ah. Whelp. This ship's sinking fast.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I should say that Element looks like it was heavily inspired by the OG Slack UI as it was at a specific point in time probably 7-8 years ago. Slack's UI started getting tweaked and enshittified quite a bit, especially after Salesforce bought them. So I can totally get not seeing the direct resemblance, but as someone that was forced to be on Slack for a decade, Element felt like "ahh old Slack" in a good way, though obviously not exact.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 2 hours ago

Ahh, okay, we only started using Slack at work a couple of years ago, so I don't remember the old UI