Matrix I feel is one of the better os for newbies
You just send them towards element.io. Or at least that's what I did with my friend, when I wanted them to switch
Is it, though? It's intended to be a public forum either way. As the MPAA and RIAA should have learned, you can't really keep a public secret.
Using Discord just makes that transparent. You're absolutely being spied on, instead of jumping through a bunch of hoops to give yourselves false confidence that you're not being spied on.
Sure. It's an easy gotcha. But if you consider it a bit more it makes sense.
Change is annoying, folk don't like having multiple platforms to talk with. A network is only as strong as the number of participants in ot, and discord has won that by a long shot. I'd love to see Matrox grow myself.
When I started using Matrix I definitely thought "wtf is this", but after 5 minutes and when I got invited to channels it all makes sense. Much prefer the privacy focused matrix
There are plenty already, why not a joint?
More solidarity/less division would be nice but it doesn't mean that some individuals wouldn't need to prove themselves to the tasks.
Matrix is a great discord-like experience. From my experience it's got different channels, direct messing and a focus it seems on privacy which is nice. Compared to discord that doesn't even support end to end encryption
Matrix is also decentralized/federated, has encryption integrated into the protocol and enjoys a broad adoption and public support. It also has pretty good integration of bots and even other message protocol services like IRC via "bridges". The chat clients are pretty good too; Element is pretty much available for every platform but there's other one's which are more focussed on Desktop or mobile usage, depending on how you primarily use it.
The main thing they lack is an easy to use Discord to [XMPP, simplex, session] bridge, If they have that then you could just hop on whichever you prefer and be in touch with the group. Love it or hate it, discord is the top chat app for the moment and being able to interact with it is a necessity.
Matrix has basically come in to place as IRC "2.0" with developers, nearly every fediverse project has Matrix channels, most open source projects in general are starting to have them. XMPP has many years on Matrix but it never took off in regards to that very critical niche of early adopters, developers and power users. XMPP was a good competetor to the web 1.0 chat apps of AIM and MSN but Discord and other apps are much more rich content focused.
Simplex seems to only have a command line interface for PC, it als owould be pretty clunky for groups i think, I have yet to see anyone advertise a Simplex "group chat" in the way they would a discord server, but perhaps there are examples out there.
Session is somewhat better but hinges on the success of a cryptocurrency for its continued development so thats a no from me, also seems to have a lot of scammers although perhaps not as bad as telegram.
Oh man, Telegram is a total cesspit. Unfortunately there are several l#Ukraine related channels I'd like to follow on there, but I've resisted the temptation so far.
There's a privacy-friendly Discord out there called Revolt. Honestly, though, it doesn't bug me if the chat is on Discord. I will not use it, even if it is on Matrix or Revolt.
You say that, but I see no evidence that Lemmy is a good place for privacy either, yet here you are. I know upvotes and down votes are public and I know that your post are freely shared and stored across the fediverse.
I don't mean this in a sort of "gotcha" way, but why shouldn't those things be public on this sort of platform? That seems like the bare minimum for a community to prosper
I don't mind if they are or aren't either way, but it doesn't make sense to tear down discord for essentially the same thing if you're ok with Lemmy doing it. Whether they should or shouldn't is another question. Also, it's possible for my upvotes and down votes to be collected but hidden much like it is on reddit.
It's a low-friction way to chat with other privacy-focused people. The alternative is something like Matrix which less people are going to use. That's the push and pull of trying to be 100% private vs. spreading privacy knowledge to more people.