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Discord vs Matrix - What’s Your Preference? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by cduke23@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Hi all, I’m new here on Lemmy and had never even heard of Matrix until I logged into Beehaw. I see frequent references to the “enshitification” of Discord, but I’m a bit OOTL on that.

What’s your preference between Matrix and Discord?

Any particular reasons or just a preference?

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[–] leecalvin@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I heard someone say that the messages on Matrix are basically replicated on every server that is federated with another. I don't know if this is true, but that's a crazy amount of network traffic if so. I've also heard anecdotally that the protocol itself is pretty complicated.

[–] tcit@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Just like… everything that's federated? XMPP, Mastodon, Lemmy ?

As soon as you're in the room (messaging) or following someone or something (social networking), you want to store all their content, so that you have it even if their server is down.