Hi all, I’m new here on Lemmy and had never even heard of Matrix until I logged into Beehaw. I see frequent references to the “enshitification” of Discord, but I’m a bit OOTL on that.

What’s your preference between Matrix and Discord?

Any particular reasons or just a preference?

  • Falken@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    3 years ago

    Honestly a forum is much better than the endless stream of live chat that is basically Discord and Matrix, et al.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      3·
      3 years ago

      for a lot of purposes yeah–in the example i used though it’d be a lot more about just having stability of community than anything, rather than some objection to live chatting. there’s very, very little cost to self-hosting a small forum and we’re a community of <100 people who mostly grew up on forums, so it’s a fairly natural switch to make.

      • Falken@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        3 years ago

        My main problem with live chat is its ephemeral nature. So you can end up having people asking the same thing that someone else asked but the previous answer is buried/lost. Forums are good because you can index and search.