I know I’ve made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I’m missing out on?

  • lackthoughtEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I was just looking at Matrix, are there community servers like on discord people can join? or is it all private rooms?

    • Strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
      5·
      2 years ago

      @lackthought
      > I was just looking at Matrix, are there community servers like on discord people can join? or is it all private rooms?

      There are loads of public rooms on matrix, eg:
      https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-city:matrix.org

      FYI what Discord calls a “server” is actually just a group of chat channels and their pool of members. The equivalent of a Discord “server” on matrix is a “Space”. This blog post is a couple of years old out-of-date, but it gives you the general idea:

      https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/17/the-matrix-space-beta/

      @hiajen

      • lackthought
        4·
        2 years ago

        thanks for the info!

        I will read more about it, sounds exciting!

        • hiajen@feddit.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          @strypey ist right :) matrix has a equivalent to guilds/servers.

          In theory it has same functionality as discord (chat/voice/video/etc) via integration but thats lacking good ui/ux. so right now i would only see it as a chat platform with potential.