It’s not. Matrix is awful.

Ok go ahead, and please explain why matrix is awful. Please only speak from recent experience.

Slow loading, constant encryption errors, difficult to use, and way too many people on the flagship instance.

I’ve been on matrix for over about two years now. There is no noticeable slowness on the client, on any that I tried (and I’ve tried a lot of them), and the chats for our groups open immediately.

There have been 0 encryption errors so far. We use encryption only in private chats and chats where we exchange important data. I have only been on large encrypted rooms (100+) once, and I did have an initial loading phase which took a couple of seconds. One should be able to live with that.

I have brought 12 people including my mother on element. Three of those people are what I consider “techy”, and the rest managed to join and use it by themselves with zero teaching from me (other than giving them the home server URL).

Hating matrix because lots of people are on the flagship server is like hating email because most people use Gmail. It’s not relevant for you. They can use whatever and you can use whatever.

I have a feeling that I have this talk once a month because there are misconceptions and misinformation on matrix. Matrix does have some issues, but these are not it.

I don’t know what to tell you, that has been my experience, and the experience of many others I have discussed it with.

Hating matrix because lots of people are on the flagship server is like hating email because most people use Gmail.

Well for one, yes, I absolutely do hate that most people use Gmail. This i s simply not the case with many competing protocols. For another, no, it’s not the same, because Gmail makes no illusions of being private.

What client are you using?

Matrix is cool but the lackluster custom emote support on mobile clients is kind of a deal breaker for me

github.com/matrix-org/…/2545 Exists since 2020. But are custom emotes really the reason that you don’t use matrix?

Sure Matrix supports custom emotes, but clients’ support for them is still spotty. Element X didn’t even show them at all when I tried, and fluffy chat would let you see them but had no emote picker. you just had to type the name into chat between colons

I don’t know what you’re trying to imply, but yes custom emote support is that important for me and my friends

Matrix has its benefits, but it is not a 1:1 replacement for discord, for one thing they still haven’t figured out audio screen sharing. If privacy is your thing, it is also a mixed bag since jitsi is not e2ee while the fluxer video calls are. For my use case fluxer is preferable for less tech savvy people or people who want e2ee video calls, & matrix is good for e2ee chat messages, both have their place, & I use both where their strengths shine

Element call exists and both audio over screen share and encrypted video calls are a thing since couple years now. It’s not a 1:1 discord and it’s good because of that.

I’ve never gotten the screen share audio to work and based on the issue tracker I’m not the only one.