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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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[–] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I happened to look at my Discord profile today. I've been on Discord for almost exactly 7yrs. I'm in several tens of servers, mainly gaming-related. Some of these are just Discords for specific games, other are for guilds/clans that I'm in, and I'm "required" to be in them (like for Eve Online).

In addition, my main friends group uses Discord. My brother (also a gamer) and I use Discord to chit chat with each other. Since us two were on there already, I convinced our parents to join us in a family Discord. Was way better than the Android vs iOS SMS/MMS texts we were doing before, which were terrible for videos and photos. And I tried to get my family on Signal; only my mom got on.

It basically doesn't matter whether I like Matrix or Discord more (fwiw, I just created a Matrix account today today to see what it is). I and the communities I'm a part of, both IRL and/or online, are already on and invested in Discord. Like someone else said, Network Effect. I guess I could leave Discord and move to Matrix...but then I'm just sitting there by myself. Super useful for a communications platform.