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If you're paying for discord nitro, consider paying for a hosted/managed matrix server instead (matrix.org)
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To make it clear to those who are misunderstanding: that's a list of companies that host matrix for you. They do it at a good price.

If you and your friends chip, it'll be a few bucks a pop per month to have your own private server with voice chat rooms and video chat rooms.

It's all opensource and contributes to the ecosystem. Best of all, no age verification because the data is yours.

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[โ€“] stressballs@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 day ago (8 children)

This kind of lack of perspective is why open services always struggle. It seems like it's the only tool the advocates of it use since they fall into the "I have a hammer to everything that isn't a nail doesn't matter" trap.

This post could have been a list of free instances to join. But instead it offers people to learn hosting and sysadmin stuff.

I'm sure there will be a bunch of replies trying to teach me how easy it is... But I am a sysadmin. I'm not your audience, and some people don't see a difference.

People who use corporate platforms do it because it's easy. Joining matrix instances is pretty easy. Presenting Matrix like people need to host servers to use it is detrimental.

[โ€“] sharuum@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

How do hosts of those instances afford to make them free?

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