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One thing that Libera and its predecessors have that is impossible with element and discord and slack is: multiple overlapping communities on the same platform.
by carterschonwald 3y ago
One thing that Libera and its predecessors have that is impossible with element and discord and slack is: multiple overlapping communities on the same platform.
Maybe matrix/element has that, but I’m not very adept at finding it I guess. Old time original freenode had so many communities.
- thedaly 3y agoIsn’t that how it works with discord? I don’t understand what you mean by overlapping communities.
- johnny22 3y agoWhat they mean is you join an irc server with tons of communities all in one place. Discord requires you to join different "servers" where each switch between communities feels like you're at a totally different irc server (even though technically it's not). On irc you just have one name and that's what everybody knows you by. On discord you have one name per "server". There's not really a lot of cross pollination there. Personally I would like to see a discord interface where there's not a jarring difference between each server. Something more like this hexchat screenshot (although hexchat itself isn't pretty) https://hexchat.github.io/screenshots.html https://hexchat.github.io/screenshots.html but note the server and channel list on the left. I want something more like that.
- wkat4242 3y agoDiscord is a datamining tracking commercial service. It's just not fair to ask FOSS users to join it IMO.
- joshsimmons 3y agoThat is definitely a thing that Matrix has, all the more so because it's a decentralized protocol and many deployments federate with each other.