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Discord vs Matrix - What’s Your Preference? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by cduke23@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Hi all, I’m new here on Lemmy and had never even heard of Matrix until I logged into Beehaw. I see frequent references to the “enshitification” of Discord, but I’m a bit OOTL on that.

What’s your preference between Matrix and Discord?

Any particular reasons or just a preference?

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[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to see Matrix grow, but right now all my less techy friends are using Discord. I've already abandoned almost every other social media site they were using to keep in contact with each other and tried to pull people over to Mastodon instead (with little success, people are stubborn) so I think I'll have to keep Discord around as the one concession.

[–] damn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah at this point Discord has achieved network effect on top of their superior user experience.

[–] Helvedeshunden@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it interesting that people use "superior user experience" about Discord. Alternatives must really be poor, because everything about Discord feels poorly designed to me — and I hate using it every time I go there (thus, I don't use it a lot). IRC is a calming quiet ocean in comparison.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's funny that you view IRC as the superior user experience because I've always just tolerated it as I don't like it much at all. I prefer Matrix over IRC from a UX view. I never really used XMPP so I don't know where that fits. Signal beats them both and is the only one I've convinced others to use on an individual basis. I've never tried an open group on signal though. People seem to prefer both Telegram and WhatsApp to all of the above. UI preference seems to be favoring WhatsApp in the general population.