penguin202124 (he/him)@sh.itjust.works to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1393arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareFranklin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 days agoMatrix is great but it’s got the same problem as every other communication service, it’s only useful when other people are on it. I use it and encourage my friends to but they just look at me like I’m crazy
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoMatrix also isn’t great, tbh. Way to much complexity baked into the protocol which makes the UX horrid
minus-squarexttweaponttx@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThis 100%. Calling is also super iffy in my experience (element / schildichat), and group calls are a non-starter, since it outsources them to a separate service, jitsi, embedded inside the element client.
Matrix is great but it’s got the same problem as every other communication service, it’s only useful when other people are on it.
I use it and encourage my friends to but they just look at me like I’m crazy
Matrix also isn’t great, tbh. Way to much complexity baked into the protocol which makes the UX horrid
This 100%. Calling is also super iffy in my experience (element / schildichat), and group calls are a non-starter, since it outsources them to a separate service, jitsi, embedded inside the element client.