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   kaia (kaia@brot.eus)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:16:24 JST kaia
   how about we build a discord alternative that will actually become popular (no FOSSbros allowed) :aismile:
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:16:23 JST :blobcathug:

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     @kaia but kaia, use matrix :blobcatgooglybadumtss:
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:17:53 JST meso

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     @kaia unnecessary unless it's foss
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:18:47 JST 翠星石

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     • meso
     @meso @kaia "FOSS"bros will indeed be attracted to a proprietary alternative of discord.
     
     It'll have to be good chat software to attract GNUbros.
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:23:50 JST :blobcathug:

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     @kaia @Zergling_man :blobcatgoogly: what? Key exchange works out of the box, verification is completely optional, sounds more lile your home server is broken
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     kaia (kaia@brot.eus)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:23:51 JST kaia

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     @Zergling_man idk, I just want to post tomboys without getting "This message could not delivered because the public key changed" or sth sth
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:23:55 JST Zergling_man

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     @kaia Enjoy getting doxxed again I guess
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:23:55 JST Zergling_man

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     @kaia I will go further than simply "popular things are usually bad" and say "it is that bad things are more attractive to normies". Normies have objectively shit taste, if you want to appeal to them, the only way to do so is to be shit.
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:27:55 JST :blobcathug:

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     @kaia (i know that there are mutliple reasons why matrix cant replace discord rn tho)
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     kaia (kaia@brot.eus)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:27:57 JST kaia

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     @Jain sorry it says I don't have your pubic key or sth......
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:46:30 JST :blobcathug:

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     @p @kaia i can tell you why matrix wont work as discord alternative:
     
     Matrix Spaces dont feel like Discord Servers: Spaces are optional, can be avoided by directly joining to channels and are basically just a list of channels. It is not easy to manage rolles and users over multiple channels / a space and you cant make a welcoming structure like TS / Discord can do it.
     Thats actually the main issue.
     
     Next issue is Voice / Video Calls dont work out of the box, admins need to have some knowledge. (At least it was like that once)
     
     Third issue is custom integrations, people would like to have an easy way to integrate bots, custom emojis and stuff, that can be done tho, but it is not easy and fun to do so and custom emojis arent well supported either
     
     Imho those are issues which i dont really care about, i like matrix, but i can understand why people from discord ignore matrix tho
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     :thonk: (p@raru.re)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:46:36 JST :thonk:

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     some governments are starting to use matrix so maybe they'll be able to simplify things a bit more with the support
     matrix is also federated which adds another layer of complexity not needed by something centralised like discord
     @kaia @Jain

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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 20:47:37 JST :blobcathug:

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     @p @kaia oh and i doupt that this will change in the next years, even with gov support, french gov uses matrix for years now
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 03:29:08 JST Zergling_man

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     @Jain @p @kaia >Spaces are optional, can be avoided by directly joining to channels
     You can set a rule on a room that you have to be in a specific containing space to join it. I don't know the details, but I know it exists.
     You can't make people automatically join contained rooms when they join a space though, but you can mark rooms as "suggested", and I really think there should be a client that interprets that as an auto-join.
     
     >people would like to have an easy way to integrate bots
     Good thing making a bot on account on matrix is exactly the same as making any other account, unlike Discord where they have a completely separate interface for it that, like almost everything else about account management, can only be accessed through a web browser.
     
     The real problem with matrix is that all the servers suck and all the clients suck. It's a neat technical demo, for now.