Stoat is probably the best competitor, although it shot itself in the leg by changing its name recently. It’s also missing video and screen sharing last time I checked, and the audio functionality barely works.
Matrix is utter chaos as far as organization goes. When you join a Discord community, chats are clearly laid out and separate from private messages or group chats. When you join a Matrix community, you must individually choose extra group chats to join, and they are often indistinguishable from things happening outside that community. It’s messy. And we haven’t even gotten to video or voice.
XMPP makes Matrix look organized and feature-complete. Good luck corralling a group of people onto that platform and figuring out disparate servers and disparate apps… I wouldn’t recommend it.
Basically, I don’t think the open source space has an answer to this, and I don’t think they can come up with one anytime soon.
Stoat is probably the best competitor, although it shot itself in the leg by changing its name recently. It’s also missing video and screen sharing last time I checked, and the audio functionality barely works.
Matrix is utter chaos as far as organization goes. When you join a Discord community, chats are clearly laid out and separate from private messages or group chats. When you join a Matrix community, you must individually choose extra group chats to join, and they are often indistinguishable from things happening outside that community. It’s messy. And we haven’t even gotten to video or voice.
XMPP makes Matrix look organized and feature-complete. Good luck corralling a group of people onto that platform and figuring out disparate servers and disparate apps… I wouldn’t recommend it.
Basically, I don’t think the open source space has an answer to this, and I don’t think they can come up with one anytime soon.
Spaces work pretty well if your client handles them