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It's roadmap is amazing, I'm hoping it will go far

Guy literally told people the criteria he was using, one of which was searching for things like that because that's the reason for the video in the first place, the Discord exodus due to deep state ties. He admits his knowledge is limited. Weird how hard it is for some people to see things from someone else's point of view.

EDIT: changed to more accurately represent how Matrix operates.

The issue is that due to the way Matrix is structured, it essentially spreads copies of unencrypted metadata to every instance participating in those rooms, So it's federated, but difficult to actually keep metadata from being spread around ~~even if you don't federate with the main Matrix server, if any server you do federate with dies, it'll get spread there~~. You'd have to be extremely cautious who you federate with to avoid that, or not federate at all, which defeats the purpose.

As an alternative, Movim, which uses XMPP and is also federated, does not spread meta data around like that.

Afaik, Matrix is also a protocol on which you can build your own thing. To me that was always the biggest draw. The current "Matrix chat" is a reference implementation of that.
A group of developers can take the Matrix protocol and make their own chat app and an organization can be built around it to do operational work and support (hosting). Discord 2 can just be Matrix underneath, not Matrix in name.

that we went from Teamspeak to Skype

Who did?

I'm curious as to what these are, as I'm setting up a matrix server right now.

That may be so, but my group of 4 has been using it for voice, text, and screen share, with almost zero issues. (Except a couple sync issues that fixed itself in a day) We are working on getting off the matrix.org server soon though.

I'm surprised actually how good its been. I am sure the small glitch we had is because we are on matrix.org. need to move soon. My friend set up our room without me and didn't understand that you don't just use the matrix.org server ...explaining how matrix works is hard to non nerds.

I don't think making these other programs optional is going to work to migrate a community. You can't say to your football team that you're gonna start playing basketball and be disappointed when they don't come with you.

If the discord and matrix server was fully bridge then maybe you'd are a bit more success as the community would be less fractured. If you're friends don't want to move from discord, and you really don't want to be in discord, that's a tough situation for you be in.

wish it was that easy,

My closests friendgroup dispersed around the province, one in kelowna, one in enderby, and im out on the Coast now. Discord (and now steam chat) kept us close

I kinda wish the fediverse had started with an account system which could then be integrated with various servers. It would concentrate on just keeping account configs where new services had new tab areas or such. Then you could have the services instances that would authtenticate and use the login configs for view and such. of course many instances would do multiple things but it would be so great to go to mastadon and have it interact with the same fediverse account as what I would use at lemming or peertube.

I spent quite a lot of effort getting Stoat up and running because they aren't working on the selfhosted version, only to get a nice email from the German government that my server was running an outdated version of React with RCE vulnerabilities. Nuked that stack at 3am.

Also I fixed their Tenor integration to be provider agnostic so the self-hoster could choose a different gif provider like klipy (Tenor turned off their API so gif search in Stoat is broken), tried to contribute that one small change back to the main project, immediately rejected because "we have no plans for klipy support".

Not worth the effort, IMO.

Stoat has to fix their self-hosted version before I'll touch it again.

Downside is that the founder is apparently a die-hard trump supporter. Which doesn't mean the app is bad, but still would leave me wondering if one should contribute to its' success via network effect, or perhaps ignore it.

It's still text only. When I hear text only I already assume it supports all you mentioned.

Text is not ASCII only :)

Beyond text only comes voice calls, video calls and screen share, which are paramount for my discord use case. Me and my friends like to game while sharing our screens, so I game in my main monitor and have a matrix of screens on the second. It creates a LAN party feeling and it's important to maintain connection after some moved out of town.