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I apperently had tried element out using a matrix.org account at some because when I went on the client I was already logged in, I vaugly remember it but it didn't really give a great first impression.
anyway, I decided to look around it again to give it another shot, I really don't think it's a good idea to relate it to Discord, the documentation itself says it's more similar to IRC than Discord. It lacks fairly basic features that you would expect to see in a current day chat service, for permissions example: they do have basic permissions and they've stated that more coming but there's no way to fine tune them for example if you want to give the ability to delete message you need to give the ability for every permission under the below the redact message permission (which is hard set at perm level 50 if I remember right). This in my opinion is actually worse than IRC in that matter, as with IRC I could fine tune someone to have Channel topic editing permissions and the ability to hide that they are there but I didn't necessarily need to give them disconnect or Banning permissions at the same time and visa versa.
I'm sure it's perfect for some pieple but, I'll stick with modern day implementations till they give a bit more control, but I'm pretty certain with the current spec it's not possible at this time