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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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[–] missingno@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discord is very frustrating to me, especially the Linux client which has had countless bugs outstanding for years. But everyone I want to talk to is on Discord. Every game I play has its community on Discord. Every tournament I enter is organized through Discord. I don't see all of that packing up and moving to Matrix ever. I haven't even tried Matrix at all, because nothing I'd use it for is over there.

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Completely agree. I'd love to convince the masses to stop using it and migrate to Matrix, but I just don't see that happening. Discord's UI is so simple for the average person. It being a privately held for profit company definitely means some day it'll go the same route as twitter/reddit/etc... And then maybe then we'll see matrix fly up in popularity. Who knows.