I will be upfront with this, and say that I’ve never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it’d gotten better in the year or so since I’ve last used it.
This just… Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I’ve tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can’t find a way to change that.
Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can’t.
Yeah, that seems to be the big issue nowadays. Doesn’t matter if your friends use Google Calendar, they can send a link and I can subscribe to it with something else. Doesn’t matter if my friends use GDrive, I have Nextcloud. But discord? I can’t talk to my friends on XMPP unless they’re also on XMPP. There are bridges, but that still requires feeding every message to discord, which defeats the purpose. Also my friends would need to be the ones to set those up, and they are not.