• Kangae_Hishiryo
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, and that’s the cool part on Matrix. It’s not really P2P yet, but it’s federated (including the storage), and they have a project looking to make it P2P.

      • Kangae_Hishiryo
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        1 day ago

        It can be, actually.

        The protocol itself obviously no, but you have clients really similar to Discord, such as Cinny, Fluffy Chat, Extera, Extera Next, Nheko, Commet, Tacit, Sable, etc.

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        1 day ago

        In my experience it has been a 1:1 discord replacement. It has channels, all kinds of emojis, video/voice calls, and multiple clients that give a very similar appearance to discord.

        How has it not been the same for you?

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          It’s a power user platform, it doesnt have simple onboarding in the way something like Fluxer/Stoat have. A Discord replacement has to have easy of use and familiarity, Matrix doesnt. You said it yourself with “multiple clients”. It’s a protocol, not a platform.

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            21 hours ago

            As for ease of use and familiarity, it seems to have reached par as far as a couple of my less technical friends go (see screenshot below for similarity to discord - its practically identical to our old setup).

            As for on boarding, use cinny.in as your client (and don’t tell your users that other clients exist) and you are off to the races!