You're invited to talk on Matrix
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You're invited to talk on Matrix

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!

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 @ruud@lemmy.world 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

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    392·
    1 year ago

    Did you know you can bridge matrix to discord? So your discord users can talk to your matrix users?

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m aware but we haven’t given it a try yet. Does it work well and is it for room/channel or server/space?

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        9·
        1 year ago

        it’s for channel - room communication. It works well, unless you have a spam problem on matrix because then they bypass the anti-spam protections of discord. but if you don’t have a spam problem, it’s great

    • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes but no. Yes, technically possible. No, I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for - you’d want to create your own bot for your own account (each user needs its own bot), and it’s technically against Discord TOS to use, so use at your own risk.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 year ago

    Huh, I guess I should find out what Matrix is!

    It’s got an ominous name for sure xD but then Discord isn’t exactly a happy name either :P

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          You mean you don’t like having to pay for Nitro just to make your profile icon an animated .gif, a feature which costs the developers literally nothing?

          …Yeah, me neither.

        • ninchuka@lemmy.one
          0·
          1 year ago

          Discord has decent UX and the voice channels are great and easy to use, it’s far from garbage, just because it isn’t open source and technically matrix is mainly made/maintained by one company who made it at the same time, they don’t own it and there’s a separate entity the matrix foundation which is non profit which owns the actual spec and all that stuff but the majority of stuff done in the spec was by element/new vector

          • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            just because it isn’t open source

            You’re going to want to support projects that share their source with the world. Otherwise, how do you know what you’re actually using? You might want to give a read through discord’s TOS and make sure you’re comfortable with what they’re doing.

            technically matrix is mainly made/maintained by one company who made it at the same time, they don’t own it and there’s a separate entity the matrix foundation which is non profit which owns the actual spec and all that stuff but the majority of stuff done in the spec was by element/new vector

            Right. If it’s open source, the public owns it. You own it, as does New Vector and the Matrix foundation. You run the servers, or your friends do. You decide the terms and conditions. You extend the server or configure it in the way you like.

            The difference here is that Discord is a black box operated by one company. Matrix is an open box operated by you or people you trust.

  • freamon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Glad it’s not just me. I’m trying to find this in FluffyChat and it comes up blank.

      • mechatux@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think it has something to do with the actual h-y-p-e-r.space server – attempting to just join a public room, “add server” results in the Element webUI red-error messaging “cannot get room list from server” and “cannot connect to server”. This matrix server doesn’t seem to show up on lists of popular, well known matrix instance so I think it’s maybe settings on their end. Admins should maybe have considered a “longstanding” server like tchncs.de or whatnot if they didn’t want to use matrix.org. $0.02 https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

  • CynicRaven@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    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! 🥂

      • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Now, you could take the fucking red pill, right? Spend the rest of your life jacking off, crying into your chai tea green latte, what the fuck. Or… you could take the blue pill. Or is it the red pill? Anyway, take the other pill and quit being a cunt.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      1 year ago

      I’ve only really used it a few times, but it’s not that hard. Open a matrix app (I used FluffyChat), put in username, put in the server you want to connect to, start typing text messages, done.