• @lemm1ngs
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      Much of this has already been done. Element app just got 30million dollars and looks like it’s on the path to main stream adoption and tackle some of the bigtech out there. It would be great if lemmy and forums could hop on their coat tails for the ride

      • Helix
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        The meta Issue I linked has 2 out of 26 tasks done, which I’d hardly count as ‘much of this’.

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          and it was last edited 2.5 years ago, element has surely changed a lot since then.

          • Helix
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            Sure, Element has changed a lot, but not regarding the discordification discussed in the linked Issue. You can go through and compare, but most features on this list are prioritised for end of 2021/ start of 2022. They’re only getting traction since a year or so.

            I’m following Matrix development closely and have written proprietary connectors to third party software. Matrix is great but there’s no feature parity with Discord yet. I don’t need it as I use Mumble for voice, Jitsi for video, both are already possible to integrate into Matrix.

            But I also dislike you trying to disprove my point by an irrelevant metric. At least do your research before you claim a lot has changed when most of it is still work in progress. Matrix will be there™ very soon. It’s just not there now.

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              irrelevant metric? that’s an interesting reality you have going there, watch you don’t step outside cause it might break. You give no proof to your claims unlike I did. Looking at the list many of the unticked features have already been implemented. I could go through one by one with proof but won’t bother as you clearly have not either.

              • Helix
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                The age of an Issue is an irrelevant metric. The content is relevant.

                • @lemm1ngs
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                  where did I mention the age of an issue?

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        • Bilb!
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          It’s worth keeping an eye out for, but as long as the profit or value extraction is just making Matrix a communication tool they can use without licensing fees associated with other team communication tools, that’s fine. It’s not like the capital behind Linux development has driven Linux in any way towards extracting money or value from end users.

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            • Bilb!
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              This is true, if it’s truly a VC investment rather than simply an investment with an expectation of bringing a technology up to usable standards then it’s a little concerning. I admit, I have no idea if that is the case.

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                • Bilb!
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                  Seems like a dubious proposition to me, though I’m far from an expert in that regard. Hopefully they use the money to pay developers to make rapid improvements and the commercial ambitions of the firm don’t pan out. ;)

        • @freely
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          I don’t really see how much bad could come of it. Maybe they start trying to hamfist ToS or license changes into the code, but then it’ll be forked.

          At worst they do some crazy data harvesting on the main instance, causing an exodus of users onto either self-hosted or other public instances.

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          Money is good as a function of our economy, but the issue you point out is concerning. It really depends on the conditions attached to the funding, like will it compromise the project somehow. The funding is just as likely to be from an intelligence agencies VC arm to alter the code for their benefit. I have seen mentions that Matrix is being used now in things that “can’t” be mentioned. Ideally open source should be able to circumvent such interference but not easily I think.

  • Sr Estegosaurio
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    153 years ago

    Yesterday I was convincing my friends to use Mumble with me. Idk, it is really cool, lightweight and straight to the point

    • Wala Walas
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      23 years ago

      We need a XMPP gaming client

  • @lemm1ngs
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    93 years ago

    forget discord get on matrix!

      • @5G_technician
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        63 years ago

        GNU Jami is also fine. Especially with low powered computers. One of my friends couldn’t open vscode and discord at the same time so we switched to GNU Jami with no problems. Audio quality a bit lower (they can’t use OPUS codecs) but otherwise very nice.

  • Graveyard Leprechaun
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    Revolt Chat looks promising. I’ve signed up for the beta. We’ll see how things go.

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  • Wala Walas
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    XMPP already supports encrypted audio calls which can be used for game chats and encrypted messaging. Just need a XMPP client designed for gaming