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!
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.
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.
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.
How are we not devoted? We are devoted to our users, not to the FOSS only mantra. I see you run your own instance, I suggest you run that one the way you want it and we’ll do our thing here.
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
As a user or as an admin ?
Why should a random admin be more trusted than discord ? (malicious, security, data leaks etc)
The reason people use Lemmy is because Reddit has a monopoly and does stupid things
