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• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aaaaand this touches on the problem with matrix in general, no standard is properly followed, way too many forks with feature support all over the place

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  • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s only one standard, it has no forks. The discussion is about a filtering feature.

    A lot of people don’t seem to respect spaces and communities - from my perspective it looks like the devs are currently pivoting to make the official client look and act more like Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp than Discord/IRC.

    Your issue is that the dev team of EleX not prioritizing a feature you want.

    If anything, this is a strength of an open source ecosystem: someone who agrees with you was able to, months ago, setup a fork that appeals to your work flow.

    Try that with Discord, next time!

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    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There is a single standard with no forks, I said not a single one followed. I run my own Matrix Home Server and use it frequently, there are a lot of different clients and there are a good number of them that do run their own features that are not exactly in Spec because one does not yet exist in the official spec. Stickers used to be a good example of that I remember when there were like three different clients Each of which implemented them in a different weird way until the spec finally landed on an implementation.

      And even within this back there are some basic features not supported on certain clients and other such problems. I’m just saying it’s not an alternative to Discord and it will never be mainstream because it’s too confusing and frustrating from the perspective of a standard user.

      Same concept that made bluesky get popular over mastodon, trying to find anything on Mastodon of interest is a chore because there’s no real Central spot to do everything the very nature of it is that it’s scattered to the winds, there’s also multiple apps available for Mobile on Mastodon Each of which have different layouts, different features, and normal people that just want to be able to find their topic of Interest can’t be bothered to deal with that

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      • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, all fair points - especially the stuff relating to stickers (also, custom emojis).

        Still, I’m hoping element gets their shit together and improves the default element apps (also brings Web/Desktop up to par with Mobile).

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