There is no concept of groups. So you had to create several channels with some kind of naming scheme. There is no way to see them in a group. You just need to know about them as a chatter.

History is not saved by default. Most used a 3rd party server to host a history log, which is more work.

There is no audio, video, screen sharing.

You can't reply to a chat with an emoji. You can't edit your previous chats.

You can't reply to a specific chat unless you get specific like copying the original chat.

Don't get me wrong. I hated that discord owns most of the communication online.

I wish there was a simple and easy to use open source tool that did all of that in a single package.

I don't mind self-hosting but if I have to self-host several interacting services that I need to update manually, it becomes a pain.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hosting matrix really isn’t too bad, you basically just jam everything in a docker-compose and you’re pretty much good to go

[–] deaf_fish@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

I'll have to look into matrix. Thank you

[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

And then enable federation on your homeserver and end up with CSAM materializing and caching everywhere.