Still a ways off, to be frank. Matrix is first and foremost a room-based chat platform, like Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram. It gives you the option to organize channels into spaces and subspaces, but they still lack the cohesion and first-party-ness of Discord servers.
In Element (an app that uses Matrix protocol) you can basically organize yourself as in Discord. Rooms/Servers with subchannels that you can invite people to and distribute admin/mod rights.
I guess it is up to the person creating the channel. There are “Spaces” and “Rooms”. Spaces are the equivalent of discord “servers”. But rooms can also be created outside of a space, making them similar to a group in Telegram/WhatsApp.
so… is matrix like discord, but a decentralized version of that?
Yes.
Matrix (the most popular app is Element) is to discord What Lemmy is to reddit.
cool. all set up!
Not really, it’s more like Whatsapp. I don’t know why people keep comparing it to Discord.
Because its default interface (Element, by Matrix developers) looks like Discord
Still a ways off, to be frank. Matrix is first and foremost a room-based chat platform, like Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram. It gives you the option to organize channels into spaces and subspaces, but they still lack the cohesion and first-party-ness of Discord servers.
In Element (an app that uses Matrix protocol) you can basically organize yourself as in Discord. Rooms/Servers with subchannels that you can invite people to and distribute admin/mod rights.
How do you do that? I have Element but all the chats I’ve joined are organised as single channels.
I guess it is up to the person creating the channel. There are “Spaces” and “Rooms”. Spaces are the equivalent of discord “servers”. But rooms can also be created outside of a space, making them similar to a group in Telegram/WhatsApp.