No I thought running your own might offer a worse experience. That's why I asked. I didn't try it myself. Honestly I didn't find matrix to be much worse than D

No I thought running your own might offer a worse experience. That's why I asked. I didn't try it myself. Honestly I didn't find matrix to be much worse than Discord. I don't know what people are looking for in these kinds of apps but Discord might be the worst (maybe weirdest?) application I used willingly. Matrix irc bridges are good as an irc bouncer I don't need to run myself and there are a few open source communities that chose matrix as their base. For what I use it for they are fine. My personel favorite in this space is Zulip.