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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by miloignis on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:01AM (#26550944)
I strongly agree with your comment about network effects and something being deeply wrong with the state of things. It's one of the topics that gets me righteously angry these days... I also have big hopes for Matrix, and run my own homeserver with a bridge or two. Here's to decentralized, encrypted, community based communication for everybody!
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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by ralusek on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:40AM (#26551793)
> Here's to decentralized, encrypted, community based communication for everybody!

Here's to decentralized, encrypted, community based communication for [people who are interested in decentralized, encrypted, community based communication]!

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by miloignis on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:08PM (#26560429)
That's the challenge, got to make the implementation so slick and solid that it can win over people who don't care! Some friends and I are working on a Matrix client and we want to put in some features we've always wanted in a chat system (count-down to events, sophisticated ordered spoiler tags, themes, alert words, mute levels, etc). Some exist in others, some don't, but I think there's lots room for improvement in the messaging space in addition to the (for me) non-negotiables of encryption and decentralization.
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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by gsich on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:11AM (#26552713)
Matrix does not have Discord like voice capabilities. There is a difference between "calling" and "joining a channel".
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