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!
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There is an announcement room for all the latest and greatest about Lemmy World: https://matrix.to/#/#announcements:lemmy.world
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A General channel where everyone is welcome to join and talk: https://matrix.to/#/#general:lemmy.world
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 @[email protected] 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
Great news, thanks!
At this point there should be a brand-new domain: matrix.world 😎
Which wasn’t available 😭
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I still prefer snailmail but that’s me
Should’ve gone for pigeon courriers!
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Have you heard about these new things called NEWSPAPERS?
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It scales with alot of users on a few servers fine but when it gets to a few thousand servers in the room it starts to lag, which isn’t that common
Minecraft server next. 😃
You don’t know me, but I’ve seen you on TV (well more accurately Lemmy)–what a great idea!
Have you seen me in the movie theater recently yet? I can’t promote it, but the movie is still playing.
No I don’t own a movie theater unfortunately.
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I really like the thought that this is Margot Robbie.
I do too.
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- Go to https://app.element.io/#/register
- Click on Edit next to matrix.org
- Other homeserver: lemmy.world
- Click Continue
- Enter Username, Password and Email
- Click Register
You now have a cool @lemmy.world matrix account. From there you can join rooms by clicking the links in the top post.
I just setup a matrix server at lemmy.world, so just register an account on that if you like ;-)
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One of the things I love about Lemmy is finding out about new things. Now I get to figure out what matrix is!!!
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.
I had no idea that’s what it was for. I hadn’t added mine for fear of spam but this makes way more sense now.
It’s a modern IRC.
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.
Thank you for this explanation!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help.
I heard it’s like Discord
Lol sweet. I will set it up after work.
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
thanks spez!
Duck spez, but in the good way?
Native group calls are being actively worked on with element call and what Do you mean by channels?
Native group calls are being actively worked on with element call
I know, it’s great! But I am just saying that it’s not there yet. But hopefully soon!
#general, #gaming etc. in discord. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/3298872
You can kinda have that with spaces, I don’t see any reason why clients couldn’t sort them like discord does, would probably need something added to the spec so they can be sorted a certain way if users wanted to
Aren’t spaces more or less the building block for “servers”? i.e. can’t you basically have channels by grouping rooms in a shared space?
that’s the alternative approach that matrix took. Probably has to do with technical things I don’t know about. But they a little bit inconvenient and less smoother than what discord has.
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Spaces are similar to discords servers/guilds yeah, but rooms don’t have to be in a space and they can be in as many spaces as anyone wants
Same same lol my brother in gentle confusion
I’d be happier if LW worked every day and more people were brought in through engagement and outreach.
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!
Updated the links in the OP. Lemmy World matrix homeserver is up.
Glad it’s not just me. I’m trying to find this in FluffyChat and it comes up blank.
Nice!
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.
Check out cinny.in it’s a discord styled client for matrix
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Revolt isn’t federated which to me makes it not even an option.
You can use matrix for groups easily, it’s what I mainly use it for
Matrix has some Lemmy integration already and perhaps more in the future.
How does it have lemmy integration?
I believe you can send DMs over the Matrix protocol. I’ve never looked into it.
Revolt isn’t nearly as mature as matrix is
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?
Beeper can be quirky when it comes to joining Matrix channels and it doesn’t support Matrix Spaces. You’ll have to join the individual channels via the desktop Beeper app.
beeper is a layer for matrix that runs on the synapse base.
I spent a few hours trying to self-host a beeper instance and gave up because of how dumb they do their ansible roll-out.
Spent a few hours getting my synapse docker image working and will add the bridges later. Beeper literally does nothing that standard matrix/synapse can do with far less closed-source clients.
Beeper has some more tight integrations with the bridges made by tulir, like showing bridge health.
Beeper doesn’t just support Matrix, it literally is a Matrix client and server.
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! 🥂
Congrats! You’re really giving folks all the options!
Sometimes we put in some effort!
