We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well.

Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!

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    1 year ago

    The reason people use Lemmy is because Reddit has a monopoly and does stupid things. How confident can we be that Discord won’t do this? I’m sure they will because they are a for-profit company. So why don’t we start from a platform that power belongs to the user? It is also tragicomic that a platform like Lemmy.world does this.

    For your argument; I don’t agree. I think Matrix has sufficient features for this job.

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      1 year ago

      It has the features (not sure about that), but it has not the users…

      I agree with you but it’s just not how it works. Or else nobody would be using mac os or google products.

      Also currently, almost nobody want/can/care about selfhosting.

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        1 year ago

        There are definitely pros/cons. I’m not a FOSS monster. I would just expect a platform whose reason for existence is big corps to be more devoted in this regard.

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      For your argument; I don’t agree. I think Matrix has sufficient features for this job.

      He said confidently, without any real experience to back this up

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        1 year ago

        I’ve been using it for 2 months for both private and group chats.

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          1 year ago

          As a user or as an admin ?

          Why should a random admin be more trusted than discord ? (malicious, security, data leaks etc)