I have a Matrix server hosted with tons of cool plugins, bots, and settings to get it as close to Discord as possible. Can’t get anyone to use it lol. Don’t care. I’ll continue to pay for it for when we truly need it.
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What I want out of a Discord-a-like:
- Screen sharing / game sharing
- Voice chat
- Text chat
- Video chat (voice + camera)
Do your bots and plugins make that possible?
Fluxer does all that at this point. Matrix is basically a dead end project spinning it's wheels trying to endlessly be something that it's not. Undermining it self at every turn.
Matrix is just objectively fucked till it figures out the fuck it actually wants to be.
When you can just self host a fluxer instance you just have everything no bots scripts or bullshit needed.
Matrix is not trying to be discord or whatever, the users try though, it's pretty much not a dead project and very useful for whoever just want a chat
Tell us about the plugins and bots. Does it all work with encryption?
I’m sure there are gaps in it, but the chat itself is encrypted. It’s still in flux before I try to get folks active in it, so I’m trialing a bunch of Maubot tools. It has URL previews, gifs—basic stuff.
There's a CLI which is nice. I use it to communicate with my self-hosted personal assistant, while I'm on the go.
Official CLI or a third party client?
third party https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
Cool!
I've been using Telegram for such notifications just because is actually seems to support them. This seems like it will do what I need!
By "self-hosted personal assistant" you mean LLM?
No.
You mean a secretary who lives at your house?
The hay day of PDAs must have been really confusing for you.
I'm not sure what public displays of affection have to do with anything.
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I was not alive for this
I tried to convince my friends and family to switch to Tox 10 years ago. Noone wanted to add contacts by adding public keys.
Shhh signal as ez as it gets
data using any kind of phone number anywhere. i still dont understand how people who are living across the world from eachother do not make use of this software.
I completely ditched WhatsApp, I have more than 20 contacts on Signal including my parents (70+) and my work chat of 8 people. I live in Germany where people tend to be very privacy focused, but we are getting there!
Wish more in my circle would embrace Signal. iMessage and WhatsApp are the default messaging apps. Of the three, Signal is far better imo
Success!
Same 😥