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What are people using Element for? I know that Element is a chat app... I actually have it installed. But it's not for work or anything. I thought it could b
by ravenstine 5y ago
What are people using Element for? I know that Element is a chat app... I actually have it installed. But it's not for work or anything. I thought it could be a cool replacement for Discord.
Nobody seems to be talking about anything on Element. There are plenty of Element rooms (or whatever they're called), but no matter how many of them I check out, they're all dead silent. There can be hundreds or thousands of joined users and I hear crickets. As a platform for socialization, I've found it pretty much useless. Am I doin' it wrong?
- DoItToMe81 5y agoMost people I know who host a Matrix homeserver run it in closed federations or completely unfederated, out of concerns for people joining larger rooms and flooding the poor budget server.
- panick21_ 5y agoNot sure what you are talking about. Those Open-Source projects that use Matrix as a official chat are as active as any other open-source project rooms.
- kvark 5y agoMost of the discussions on Rust graphics stack around wgpu (WebGPU implementation) happen on the Matrix protocol. There you can find our official rooms for communication both intra within developers and extra with community. It’s been working very well for us, and I’m quite excited to finally have threads.
- tjader 5y agoI run my own homeserver and bridges for IRC, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Chat and Discord, so that I can access all my chats in a single place instead of several separate apps/browser tabs.