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.
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!
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 that’s what it was for. I hadn’t added mine for fear of spam but this makes way more sense now.
It’s a modern IRC.
Did you know you can bridge matrix to discord? So your discord users can talk to your matrix users?
Yeah I'm aware but we haven't given it a try yet. Does it work well and is it for room/channel or server/space?
it's for channel - room communication. It works well, unless you have a spam problem on matrix because then they bypass the anti-spam protections of discord. but if you don't have a spam problem, it's great
Yes but no. Yes, technically possible. No, I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for - you’d want to create your own bot for your own account (each user needs its own bot), and it’s technically against Discord TOS to use, so use at your own risk.
Minecraft server next. 😃
You don't know me, but I've seen you on TV (well more accurately Lemmy)--what a great idea!
Have you seen me in the movie theater recently yet? I can't promote it, but the movie is still playing.
Huh, I guess I should find out what Matrix is!
It's got an ominous name for sure xD but then Discord isn't exactly a happy name either :P
It's an open source group text chat protocol, with multiple apps/programs you can use it with
I guess it's just a federated version of Discord.
But open source. Not owned and operated by one company.
Discord is garbage.
You mean you don't like having to pay for Nitro just to make your profile icon an animated .gif, a feature which costs the developers literally nothing?
...Yeah, me neither.
I honestly think it's nice. You're paying for mostly cosmetic stuff and the core Discord experience is unaffected.
I'm not sure if they suck or have shady businesses, but I have never felt the desire to pay for Nitro. I hope they manage to get profit with such an unremarkable set of perks.
Congrats! You're really giving folks all the options!
Sometimes we put in some effort!
Is Matrix just a fediverse equivalent to Discord?
Well, it's not called fediverse specifically in the case of Matrix. But yeah, it is a federated alternative to Discord.
I've not had any luck joining any of these rooms. I click the link, continue with Element (the web app), I can see that I'm logged in and can access a room I've already joined (for moderating another community), but for these rooms, I'm just getting:
#lwgeneral:h-y-p-e-r.space is not accessible at this time.
Try again later, or ask a room or space admin to check if you have access.
M_UNKNOWN was returned while trying to access the room or space.
If you think you're seeing this message in error, please submit a bug report.
EDIT: the updated links work for me now!
At this point there should be a brand-new domain: matrix.world 😎
Which wasn't available 😭
So what's the quick bullet point version of how Matrix works? Are there instance like Lemmy? If so, what are the best ones?
You now have a cool @lemmy.world matrix account. From there you can join rooms by clicking the links in the top post.
I just setup a matrix server at lemmy.world, so just register an account on that if you like ;-)
I'm set up using Beeper for consolidation of a lot of my messaging platforms, and they support Matrix. That said, I'm not having any success in finding the listed spaces from the urls in the original post. Is there some kind of federation that needs to take place for this to be possible or, I dunno, is there some extension of Matrix that needs to be supported by Beeper for this to work?
Beeper can be quirky when it comes to joining Matrix channels and it doesn't support Matrix Spaces. You'll have to join the individual channels via the desktop Beeper app.
Beeper doesn’t just support Matrix, it literally is a Matrix client and server.
I'll be honest, as always I prefer to get status updates on Mastodon and beyond that, Lemmy isn't a chat system for me, it's more of a forum-style interaction system.
But hey, I can see the need for chat in particular for mods, so cheers! 🥂
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