I see some folks migrating from Telegram to Matrix...

I see some folks migrating from Telegram to Matrix for obvious reasons. While I do use Matrix, and invite you to use it too, I can't say I like it very much. And then I thought. What is Matrix's response to Telegram's channels? I don't think there is any. But that's probably what Fediverse handles.

NB. Telegram channels are like chats, but only admins can post. There are also comments to posts that open in a separate view.

Like 25 August at 21:12 | Open on merveilles.town

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nandi

@bouncepaw I'm a fan of mattermost. It's not federated but I kinda like that. At least it's open source

25 August at 23:21 | Open on federate.social

bouncepaw 🍄

@v I used it once, it was nice

26 August at 5:09 | Open on merveilles.town

nandi

@bouncepaw pop is uses it for their community I've been on there alpha testing cosmic desktop

26 August at 14:16 | Open on federate.social

Мантисса :CrabVerified:

@bouncepaw
> What is Matrix's response to Telegram's channels

#Telegram channels are a mistake and shouldn't be reimplemented anywhere. Messaging and reading blogs must have different UI/UX.

Mixing them in a single chat view strenghtens FOMO and is just unethical.

26 August at 2:03 | Open on craba.cab

bouncepaw 🍄

@cybertailor sounds reasonable. On the other hand, it's such a unique thing...

26 August at 5:10 | Open on merveilles.town

Мантисса :CrabVerified:

@bouncepaw "public channels" feature was copied by Viber and, recently, WhatsApp and VK. All of them are predatory companies.

26 August at 5:33 | Open on craba.cab

bouncepaw 🍄

@cybertailor not so unique anymore then. But VK? Why?.. They have groups after all.

26 August at 6:54 | Open on merveilles.town

Мантисса :CrabVerified:

@bouncepaw there's a "VK Messenger" app, which schools are coerced to use

26 August at 7:19 | Open on craba.cab

bouncepaw 🍄

@cybertailor oh, we used to use a combination of Zoom, VK, WhatsApp and Discord (?) during the covid remote education days. At least it's all in one now, I guess. I wonder if they still use that https://dnevnik.ru thing...

26 August at 7:26 | Open on merveilles.town

Dawid Rejowski

@bouncepaw

For Matrix just create a room and set default permissions to read-only level.

26 August at 6:23 | Open on 101010.pl

अनीश

@bouncepaw i love telegram channels, but i access them over rss and dont read the comments generally

matrix really has no good answer here tbh

26 August at 7:09 | Open on merveilles.town