We know most of you were thrilled about our Discord server, so we decided to make you even happier with our very own space on matrix!
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There is an announcement room for all the latest and greatest about Lemmy World: https://matrix.to/#/#announcements:lemmy.world
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A General channel where everyone is welcome to join and talk: https://matrix.to/#/#general:lemmy.world
And lastly, this one is more for admins of other instances but we have opened a “LW Defense HQ” room which we want to use in our ongoing fight against spammers: https://matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world
Come join us!
EDIT: Madlad @ruud@lemmy.world was easily convinced to set up a lemmy.world matrix server. So I edited the links to the new space and rooms. The old ones still work too!
That means you can now also sign up for a Lemmy World matrix account. Instructions in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/3443207
One of the things I love about Lemmy is finding out about new things. Now I get to figure out what matrix is!!!
Same idea as Lemmy except for chat. Basically Reddit is to Lemmy as Slack / Discord is to Matrix. One minor detail is Matrix is actually the protocol, so it’s more like ActivityPub (which is Lemmy’s protocol), and there are specific apps for Matrix which use that protocol.
No, it has some differences. We don’t have channels but spaces, which in discord terms are groups of different discord “servers”. For example you can create a Lemmy space with different rooms (matrix equivalent of discord servers) like general, coding, fediverse etc. Inside the Lemmy space. Currently video calls are a bit finicky but it’s still pretty good. Especially with E2E. For a complete clone you can use rocket.chat
Aren’t spaces more or less the building block for “servers”? i.e. can’t you basically have channels by grouping rooms in a shared space?
Native group calls are being actively worked on with element call and what Do you mean by channels?
You can even add your Matrix account in your Lemmy settings so that other users can DM you securely through Matrix, not the Lemmy or Matrix admins will be able to read messages sent through that.
Did you know you can bridge matrix to discord? So your discord users can talk to your matrix users?
Yeah I’m aware but we haven’t given it a try yet. Does it work well and is it for room/channel or server/space?
https://t2bot.io/discord/ is a free discord bridge you can use or host your own since the bridge is fully open source
I tried this one but it doesn’t do emoji reactions and such. Is that because of the bridge software or is it technically not possible?
Yes but no. Yes, technically possible. No, I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for - you’d want to create your own bot for your own account (each user needs its own bot), and it’s technically against Discord TOS to use, so use at your own risk.
No each user doesn’t need their own bot you just add one bot on the matrix side and one in the discord side
Can you share what type of bot you’re using? The last time I tried this, I had to add a personal app key for the bot, which was linked to my account. It created a bunch of discordbot profiles, one for each user in my contacts, and added them to the server. I’m not positive but I think that anyone who messages these profiles will be messaging my contacts, though I think they didn’t appear in the directory by default. Either way, if anyone wanted to setup a new user, they would need to go through the same process I did, which includes having admin access to the server.
Where did I go wrong?
Follow these steps to get a lemmy.world matrix account: https://lemmy.world/comment/3443207
Minecraft server next. 😃
You don’t know me, but I’ve seen you on TV (well more accurately Lemmy)–what a great idea!
Have you seen me in the movie theater recently yet? I can’t promote it, but the movie is still playing.
Huh, I guess I should find out what Matrix is!
It’s got an ominous name for sure xD but then Discord isn’t exactly a happy name either :P
But open source. Not owned and operated by one company.
Discord is garbage.
You mean you don’t like having to pay for Nitro just to make your profile icon an animated .gif, a feature which costs the developers literally nothing?
…Yeah, me neither.
Discord has decent UX and the voice channels are great and easy to use, it’s far from garbage, just because it isn’t open source and technically matrix is mainly made/maintained by one company who made it at the same time, they don’t own it and there’s a separate entity the matrix foundation which is non profit which owns the actual spec and all that stuff but the majority of stuff done in the spec was by element/new vector
Congrats! You’re really giving folks all the options!
Well @ijeff@lemdro.id here is an admin for the lemdro.id instance and we have @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com in this thread from lemmy.dbzer0.com …
“there are dozens of us!”
