If you want a successful and big community outside of coorp shit, then we need to create something new and better together and not put the load onto an individual person who wont be able to make it profitable.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I never understood the appeal of discord.

Like. It's IRC with voice chat. I'm sure making a voice chat client is not trivial but weve had IRC for like 30 fucking years.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because it does the things well gamers want. They want to play together, and talk together (voice chat), and stream showing them bossing or doing something IG. It does those things very well. If matrix gets seemless voice calling and video/screensharing at the click of the button, they would find it easier to make inroads.

It also has sensible defaults for managing users etc. and it's effortless.

It's not about features, it's just about getting the basics right.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@ReakDuck so why not work on adding those features to Matrix, instead of reinventing the wheel in another closed platform from scratch? The network effect is by far the most important factor when it comes to any chat app, or building a community. Matrix solves the network effect by being interoperable, having bridges.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

You're entirely right. Idk from where this mindset comes and how to reduce the mindset.

But xdbk has a meme to this