 So why is it that Fediverse-based software development projects all need to have a Discord or such? Actually, I know why that is. What I don't know is whether anybody is working on bringing Discord-like functionality to the Fediverse and if not, why not. Thoughts? Pointers? 7 comments
 @lps ... and it's even stranger that so many fediverse projects use (closed) Discord for their chat over (more open) Matrix. @zach protocol-wise, possibly -- although a difference in W3C standard vs foundation. But product-wise: why do I need to leave my fediverse app to group chat? Why isn't it part of the same product? @J12t I'd be happy if it wasn't discord or another closed platform personally but I think that's a good question. I was going to say mastodon doesn't really feel like real time conversation like IRC, Matrix or XMPP does for me, but this conversation is causing me to rethink that notion. |
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@J12t That was the direction I was urging Firefish to move in. Most of these forks don’t see any kind of real time chat as important.(I do.) And Matrix may soon be more suitable as a chat protocol,, now that the Vector folks are taking over the moribund Synapse server (always ponderous and buggy). And it would solve the DM problem, too.