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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
(techcrunch.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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I've seen several people say that Matrix clients aren't good at replacing Discord, but I'm having trouble understanding what exactly is missing. What critical features does Discord have that a client like Element lacks?
I mean, there is the userbase ...
Critical Mass, as it’s sometimes referred.
Here's a critical feature: Matrix bans people using a VPN. Fuck that. I joined a channel for the first time, said "Hello", and was instantly banned for "Spam".
I have to use a VPN because I get my Internet from tethering my phone using EasyTether to make it look like phone data, and connecting to stuff like Windows Update would make it really obvious I'm doing so.
Not sure if you’re joking or not so I’m gonna go see for myself, brb
Edit: what the fuck..
Are you talking about matrix.org? I have my own server. If it bans me, that'll be wild.
Yeah, I think so. I downloaded the recommended app, connected to the recommended server, added a channel, tried to ask my question, and BAM! That was it.
I think they're just hyper-vigilante about spammers. They have been targeted with a lot of spam as the flagship server. Unfortunate that you had a bad experience your first time trying it.
Voice chat quality is subpar, there is no screensharing audio, voice chat is buggy on a good day, unusuable on the rest.
Unfortunately discord is the main app used for a lot of communities I follow for specific games, streamer communities, local organizations, etc. But for my friend group we use a self hosted matrix server. It lacks all the nifty bots for music streaming, I'm pretty sure I can't screen share for movie nights or to share gaming, but it had the bare bones chatting experience