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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Matrix works fine, and is getting better. Element is not the best client for it.

Xmpp is good if you're not stupid.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think any client can fix the lag in matrix. For example, a room with high traffic but low messages will always be super slow to load messages, because it also has to load state events. (And Matrix communities used as an alternative to a Discord server will be generating a lot of that "join" and "leave" room traffic.)

I found this out the hard way when I tried out the Commet client.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I also think the way a lot of people use discord needs to not be a chat in a chat client. It needs to be the 'discuss' page on a fucking wiki and i swear putting that shit on chat has lost us collectively a decade of knowledge.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you, especially when it comes to tech stuff. But those people are only one group - and Discord actually does a better job filling the needs of other groups (thanks to its marriage of streaming and messaging technology) that alternative apps can't really compete with.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Put a fucking irc window in the fucking page for questions.

The shit i have seen put on discord is staggering.