About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.
Matrix Manifesto We believe:
People should have full control over their own communication. People should not be locked into centralised communication silos, but instead be free to pick who they choose to host their communication without limiting who they can reach. The ability to converse securely and privately is a basic human right. Communication should be available to everyone as a free and open, unencumbered, standard and global network.
Matrix isn’t the alternative for discord. Others have been named.
Matrix is a chat with a high regard for encryption, more an alternative to Whatsapp and signal then discord.
Matris does not use E2E encryption for most channels. Its primary draw is federation, not security or anonymity.
There’s 0 point to encryption on public rooms
It makes no sense to encrypt public channels.
I too am wondering what makes you say that. What is it missing?
Voice Channels would be a start. Game Streaming is another use-case of Discord my friend group uses which is missing.
Matrix has voice chat and screen sharing. I don’t think it implements audio passthrough like discord but I could be mistaken.
I thought it only had voice chat for calls? Are there voice channels tho?
not yet, they are working on a native group calls stack, so once thats done and stable there will be voice channels in element and other clients
There is a jitsi widget for rooms though, so you can convert any group chat into a drop in/drop out voice room similar to discord’s voice rooms. The biggest struggle I have with it is that it defaults to asking about video every time, and there is no hotkey support. 🤮
my friend has used signal, whatsapp, discord bridges with her conduit server and has had 0 issues
Matrix is considerably more like discord than both Whatsapp or signal.
You can get a WhatsApp/signal experience out of it but overall it is very similar to discord
Yeah it is more similar to discord. If I were to group chatting apps/services into two groups, I would do this: