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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Matrix isn't that good from an usability standpoint as it looks a lot like IRC

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Usability is good in my opinion. They’ve spent a lot of time on the UI over the past couple years. The mobile Element X apps are excellent now IMO. But the two things that prevent matrix/Element from being a good discord replacement are:

    1. No Mumble-like voice chat. They have Zoom-like conference calling now, but no voice channels.
    2. Search is either non-existent (mobile clients) or is awful. It’s somehow worse than Discord’s search! I know it’s because the search needs to work on-device because of E2EE, but unfortunately it’s still a minus point vs Discord.
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, the best solution to 1 may be to simply deploy mumble in addition to matrix (or other chat apps).

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Seconding this, just use mumble. It's self-hosted free and open source software, easy on resources, provides very low latency, and it's very stable and reliable.

    The client might look a little dated but I still love it. I don't care for stupid electron apps, which every modern application seems to be.

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