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Discord vs Matrix - What’s Your Preference? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] Balemi@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I've been in the tech industry a long time and while younger me would have preferred a more techy platform like Matrix older me definitely prefers the ease of use of Discord. I feel like how to best make these kinds of platforms is solved well enough now that I don't want to bother with something more difficult to use unless I feel a strong motivation to do so.

I haven't looked lately but Matrix didn't do voice + text chat coherently last time I did either which made it a non-starter.