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This will be a harder sell than Lemmy because I need to convince my friends to move too
The great thing, you actually don't have to. There are so called bridges which can simply bridge your friends into your matrix chat. I for example can talk to all my whatsapp, discord and signal contacts from the same app. Very convenient.
Thank you for giving me another federated service to check out! 😁
I basically quit discord when notifications completely broke after the mandatory name change. Nothing I do has any effect. It'll simply never beep again.
I managed to get most of my co-mods to Matrix. We set up a bot to notify us what's up. All was good for a while.
Then the bot broke and is moving to Discord, and now my Matrix clients are giving me problems with notifications too.
Modern computing definitely hates me.
I wanted to like matrix. I really did.
But it never really works properly for me. And when it does, it's slow.
And the e2e implementation is a nightmare for multiple devices. They tried to make it easier, but it never quite worked for me.
I wish Matrix/Element focused a bit more on their experimental P2P version, released as experimental in 2020 and then left it in the drawer :/
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p2p-matrix/
https://github.com/vector-im/element-android-p2p (... and just why the zuck are they hosting builds on a gdrive instead on the github proper ???)
The only thing holding me back from using it is that it doesn't remove the background noise of my mic well. (I also have to convince my less privacy minded friends and they really don't like the extra background noises)
Element is an amazing platform! It's not perfect, but given what it implements it's doing a helluva good job!
I thought Mumble was the better alternative for Discord, at least regarding voice chat? https://www.mumble.info/
There's also Revolt - https://revolt.chat/
I would love to switch to matrix. But discord has a lotnof features matrix doesn't even the half baked Linux client supports. But the bigger problem would be convincing my friends to move over.
Ok but do they have a sound board for voice calls
https://mattermost.com/ is the closest open source self-hostable alternative to Slack/Discord I'm familiar with