You're invited to talk on Matrix
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You're invited to talk on Matrix

We know most of you were thrilled about our Discord server, so we decided to make you even happier with our very own space on matrix!

And lastly, this one is more for admins of other instances but we have opened a “LW Defense HQ” room which we want to use in our ongoing fight against spammers: https://matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world

Come join us!

EDIT: Madlad @ruud@lemmy.world was easily convinced to set up a lemmy.world matrix server. So I edited the links to the new space and rooms. The old ones still work too!

That means you can now also sign up for a Lemmy World matrix account. Instructions in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/3443207

  • Steve Anonymous
    97•2 years ago

    One of the things I love about Lemmy is finding out about new things. Now I get to figure out what matrix is!!!

    • @asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
      61•2 years ago

      Same idea as Lemmy except for chat. Basically Reddit is to Lemmy as Slack / Discord is to Matrix. One minor detail is Matrix is actually the protocol, so it’s more like ActivityPub (which is Lemmy’s protocol), and there are specific apps for Matrix which use that protocol.

      • spezEnglish
        28•2 years ago

        No, it has some differences. We don’t have channels but spaces, which in discord terms are groups of different discord “servers”. For example you can create a Lemmy space with different rooms (matrix equivalent of discord servers) like general, coding, fediverse etc. Inside the Lemmy space. Currently video calls are a bit finicky but it’s still pretty good. Especially with E2E. For a complete clone you can use rocket.chat

    • m-p{3}
      15•2 years ago

      You can even add your Matrix account in your Lemmy settings so that other users can DM you securely through Matrix, not the Lemmy or Matrix admins will be able to read messages sent through that.

  • Obinice
    35•2 years ago

    Huh, I guess I should find out what Matrix is!

    It’s got an ominous name for sure xD but then Discord isn’t exactly a happy name either :P

  • freamonEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    I’ve not had any luck joining any of these rooms. I click the link, continue with Element (the web app), I can see that I’m logged in and can access a room I’ve already joined (for moderating another community), but for these rooms, I’m just getting:

    #lwgeneral:h-y-p-e-r.space is not accessible at this time.
    Try again later, or ask a room or space admin to check if you have access.
    M_UNKNOWN was returned while trying to access the room or space.
    If you think you’re seeing this message in error, please submit a bug report.

    EDIT: the updated links work for me now!

  • @MossBear@lemmy.world
    11•2 years ago

    So what’s the quick bullet point version of how Matrix works? Are there instance like Lemmy? If so, what are the best ones?

    • RuudM
      5•2 years ago

      I just setup a matrix server at lemmy.world, so just register an account on that if you like ;-)

    • @smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
      4•2 years ago

      Matrix is a federated protocol to build real-time data sharing apps. Mostly focuces on chat apps.

      It has flexible model of rooms. You can create room with 2 people that behave like WhatsApp chat, invite more and you have group chat, make room of rooms (called spaces) that works like Discord communities, also there are video rooms in the way that would work like mix of Discord voice channels with invite links like Zoom. Room is decentralized across multiple servers and to add people you eather invite or create a public alias (like #general:lemmy.world).

  • Carighan Maconar
    8•2 years ago

    I’ll be honest, as always I prefer to get status updates on Mastodon and beyond that, Lemmy isn’t a chat system for me, it’s more of a forum-style interaction system.

    But hey, I can see the need for chat in particular for mods, so cheers! 🥂

  • @CynicRaven@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•2 years ago

    I’m set up using Beeper for consolidation of a lot of my messaging platforms, and they support Matrix. That said, I’m not having any success in finding the listed spaces from the urls in the original post. Is there some kind of federation that needs to take place for this to be possible or, I dunno, is there some extension of Matrix that needs to be supported by Beeper for this to work?

  • verity_kindle
    6•2 years ago

    So glad and honestly relieved to see ya back up and running. More options are great.

  • @ultrasquid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Why Matrix (which from my experience is closer to a texting app) instead of Revolt? I haven’t used it personally, but Revolt looks a lot closer to Discord in terms of features and the usage experience.

  • josheron
    4•2 years ago

    Just joined! Btw anyone know good Matrix channels to join?

  • Autonomous User
    3•2 years ago

    Discord, anti-libre software, does nothing to defend us from a rug pull: does Discord really think we’re stupid enough to fall for its scam.