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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015

If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Daily reminder that Matrix exists and has many populated chat rooms

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I assume having your own chat room with your friends would mean self hosting?

Think of it more like Lemmy, do you need to self-host a Lemmy instance to create a post? A community? No, and the same goes for Matrix.

The only reason to self-host Matrix is if you want to. You can create chat rooms on pretty much any server you like.

I personally use Matrix.org so I can just set up a chat room and itll be hosted there. Of course if you want to self host a matrix instance for you and your friends thats an option, or some of your friends can use the self hosted instance and some other instances (Matrix is a federated protocol).

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I assume having your own chat room with your friends would mean self hosting?

Why would you assume this? There's plenty of servers available and conversations can still be encrypted.

Voice chat is extremely lacking, though.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Lacking in what ways?

[–] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it's the interests I have, but those chat rooms may have people but not a lot of activity. Also, the specific people I want to chat with don't use Matrix.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

The big issue they've had, imo, is that there's too many bots and too many IRC bridges from stubborn oldies who refused to migrate away from IRC.

There was a time when freenode went down that many channels were experiencing an exodus, which would have been the perfect time for Matrix adoption, but people were far too stubborn with IRC despite its many flaws (privacy, lack of history, poor feature set, etc.)