Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I’m on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can’t find a clear “winner”.

  • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sadly I found out yesterday:

    Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.

    https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

    Many were claiming its impossible to get contributions merged as well.

    I would be happy to find out this information is wrong or outdated.

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Feels like fud.

      Matrix is a set of standards and governed by an open foundation https://matrix.org/foundation/about/

      Also there are many different server implementations and its hard to believe they all send your data to some third entity. In other words, what is stated by that link is just plain false. Not to mention that today there are quite many clients as well and I find the bridge point a bit… Idiotic.

      You are free to use matrix.org but makes way more sense to self host your instance, and maybe not even use Synapse but something more “modern” as server.