Bridge set up between Matrix and Discord
We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well. Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!
When you’re constantly getting attacked and having issues, sometimes you need to do stuff you don’t want to do, just to be able to get stuff done.
In a perfect world I think devs wouldn’t want to use Discord, but it’s one of the only options that won’t be constantly taking down with attacks.
If lemmy is being attacked, mods need a platform to coordinate.
Discord has DDOS protection through their hoster, which was the primary means of attacks on lemmy.
Ok tell me how to set up a matrix server that is invite only with one link instead of having to invite them all one by one?
Yes for most of the stuff matrix is good and I like it. But pretending it’s s complete replacement for discord is simply not true.
Even besides that, which one is more popular do you think? Which one has the most reach and people are most familiar with? Most people don’t care if it’s foss or not, they’ll use what everyone is using.
The topic was to coordinate in case of an attack, so you’d probably want to verify identities and avoid imposters, which Discord “kind of” does through things like its integrations with other ID services… but there’s nothing like a good cryptographic signature. Discord has a “report raid” option for a reason, it isn’t bulletproof.
how to set up a matrix server that is invite only with one link instead of having to invite them all one by one?
A whole server, can be done, but why? A private space, or private room… I guess you still need to use a bot to invite from a link.
There are some bots out there with other interesting features though, like a “knock” option to let admins/mods know of join requests and accept/reject, or a setup where they use two rooms: one public, for everyone to join, with a bot that you can ask nicely for an invite to the private one.
Strictly speaking, all Discord features and more are possible via Matrix bots… but probably not yet available through a user friendly GUI, if that’s what you mean.
which one is more popular
Nowadays, either is a click away; whether the web UI, or some app in an app store.
Why would you need to verify identity’s to avoid imposters when this is set up ahead of time?
I’m user x here and user y there….
How is this so hard for you to comprehend?
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