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
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.
No I don’t own a movie theater unfortunately.
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I really like the thought that this is Margot Robbie.
I do too.
Did you know you can bridge matrix to discord? So your discord users can talk to your matrix users?
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Is Matrix just a fediverse equivalent to Discord?
Well, it’s not called fediverse specifically in the case of Matrix. But yeah, it is a federated alternative to Discord.
Ok.
Matrix is a federated protocol to build real-time data sharing apps. Mostly focuces on chat apps.
It has flexible model of rooms. You can create room with 2 people that behave like WhatsApp chat, invite more and you have group chat, make room of rooms (called spaces) that works like Discord communities, also there are video rooms in the way that would work like mix of Discord voice channels with invite links like Zoom. Room is decentralized across multiple servers and to add people you eather invite or create a public alias (like #general:lemmy.world).
This is a very good explanation.
Its closer to a texting app from my experience
I’m sure Discord CAN behave as a texting app too
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At this point there should be a brand-new domain: matrix.world 😎
Which wasn’t available 😭
So what’s the quick bullet point version of how Matrix works? Are there instance like Lemmy? If so, what are the best ones?
- Go to https://app.element.io/#/register
- Click on Edit next to matrix.org
- Other homeserver: lemmy.world
- Click Continue
- Enter Username, Password and Email
- Click Register
You now have a cool @lemmy.world matrix account. From there you can join rooms by clicking the links in the top post.
I just setup a matrix server at lemmy.world, so just register an account on that if you like ;-)
Congrats! You’re really giving folks all the options!
Discord, anti-libre software, does nothing to defend us from a rug pull: does Discord really think we’re stupid enough to fall for its scam.
Questions end with a question mark.
Why Matrix (which from my experience is closer to a texting app) instead of Revolt? I haven’t used it personally, but Revolt looks a lot closer to Discord in terms of features and the usage experience.
Revolt isn’t federated which to me makes it not even an option.
Revolt isn’t nearly as mature as matrix is
You can use matrix for groups easily, it’s what I mainly use it for
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Check out cinny.in it’s a discord styled client for matrix
Matrix has some Lemmy integration already and perhaps more in the future.
How does it have lemmy integration?
I believe you can send DMs over the Matrix protocol. I’ve never looked into it.
I’ve not had any luck joining any of these rooms. I click the link, continue with Element (the web app), I can see that I’m logged in and can access a room I’ve already joined (for moderating another community), but for these rooms, I’m just getting:
#lwgeneral:h-y-p-e-r.space is not accessible at this time.
Try again later, or ask a room or space admin to check if you have access.
M_UNKNOWN was returned while trying to access the room or space.
If you think you’re seeing this message in error, please submit a bug report.EDIT: the updated links work for me now!
Nice! This is the way to go
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You don’t know how to use it? Or how it works behind the scenes?
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You mean bridging other platforms?
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Did you try with your own self hosted server or something being hosted by someone else/a company?
I’ve only really used it a few times, but it’s not that hard. Open a matrix app (I used FluffyChat), put in username, put in the server you want to connect to, start typing text messages, done.
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.
Thank you for this explanation!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help.
I heard it’s like Discord
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
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I’d be happier if LW worked every day and more people were brought in through engagement and outreach.