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Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Storage costs build up fast, the real solution is just handling peer to peer file sharing.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Yeah, and that's the cool part on Matrix. It's not really P2P yet, but it's federated (including the storage), and they have a project looking to make it P2P.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Matrix is cool, it's just not a Discord replacement.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    In my experience it has been a 1:1 discord replacement. It has channels, all kinds of emojis, video/voice calls, and multiple clients that give a very similar appearance to discord.

    How has it not been the same for you?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It's a power user platform, it doesnt have simple onboarding in the way something like Fluxer/Stoat have. A Discord replacement has to have easy of use and familiarity, Matrix doesnt. You said it yourself with "multiple clients".

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    As for ease of use and familiarity, it seems to have reached par as far as a couple of my less technical friends go (see screenshot below for similarity to discord - its practically identical to our old setup).

    As for on boarding, use cinny.in as your client (and don't tell your users that other clients exist) and you are off to the races!

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