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One of the things I love about Lemmy is finding out about new things. Now I get to figure out what matrix is!!!
Same idea as Lemmy except for chat. Basically Reddit is to Lemmy as Slack / Discord is to Matrix. One minor detail is Matrix is actually the protocol, so it's more like ActivityPub (which is Lemmy's protocol), and there are specific apps for Matrix which use that protocol.
Thank you for this explanation!
You're welcome! Glad I could help.
I heard it's like Discord
No, it has some differences. We don't have channels but spaces, which in discord terms are groups of different discord "servers". For example you can create a Lemmy space with different rooms (matrix equivalent of discord servers) like general, coding, fediverse etc. Inside the Lemmy space. Currently video calls are a bit finicky but it's still pretty good. Especially with E2E. For a complete clone you can use rocket.chat
thanks spez!
Aren't spaces more or less the building block for "servers"? i.e. can't you basically have channels by grouping rooms in a shared space?
Spaces are similar to discords servers/guilds yeah, but rooms don't have to be in a space and they can be in as many spaces as anyone wants
that's the alternative approach that matrix took. Probably has to do with technical things I don't know about. But they a little bit inconvenient and less smoother than what discord has.
It is just a matter of presentation by the client. Hopefully they figure out how to join all rooms in a space at once to make switching "channels" more smooth.
Yeah. However, currently I don't know of any clients that do that specifically. Currently, I use schildichat (fork of element with ACTUAL linux support). I would like to use Nheko but it's E2E implementation hasn't been audited.
Native group calls are being actively worked on with element call and what Do you mean by channels?
I know, it's great! But I am just saying that it's not there yet. But hopefully soon!
#general, #gaming etc. in discord. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/3298872
You can kinda have that with spaces, I don't see any reason why clients couldn't sort them like discord does, would probably need something added to the spec so they can be sorted a certain way if users wanted to
Lol sweet. I will set it up after work.
You can even add your Matrix account in your Lemmy settings so that other users can DM you securely through Matrix, not the Lemmy or Matrix admins will be able to read messages sent through that.
I had no idea thatβs what it was for. I hadnβt added mine for fear of spam but this makes way more sense now.
Itβs a modern IRC.
Same same lol my brother in gentle confusion