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What's up, I'm new to matrix and have just been getting into it, I'm trying to replace discord with it. When prompted to make an account I stupidly chose the "continue with google" option. This didn't seem like such a big deal at first, but now as far as I can tell it's impossible for me to sign in on my phone. The element client on IOS doesn't have an option to continue with google, and since I chose that I don't have a password, and I can't make a password without providing my existing password (which I don't have). Does anyone have any ideas? should I just make a new account and start fresh?

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Is this a friend request, a space invite, something else? Can I find a description somewhere or am I supposed to get invites from people I know?

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Discord bots to give users collection games. Trying to move people off discord but this is a sticking point

Reference

https://github.com/ker0olos/fable

https://top.gg/bot/432610292342587392

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Hey. Im thinking about creating matrix client based on telegram. I think their UI/UX is one of the best among messengers. Plus their android app is open source.

I have to take couple of things in consideration, like: licensing, technical details and some more. Its very possible from the technical perspective and pretty unclear from the licensing/legal perspective (since they could change license any moment or even go private).

In this post i would mostly like to know if open source community even wants anything related to telegram. Not everyone likes it. The project would target mainly open source community and will be public as well.

So the questions: Do you think we would want it? And would you personally try it?

Thank you <3

EDIT: :V If you think its bad idea, please tell me. I see much of positive response (and i feel pretty happy about it), but i have to be real, so if you think im wrong or you see any problems, please speak up :)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27749197

I've been trying to use Matrix to replace sites like Discord or Slack. But it seems that if a user creates an invitation-only room in a server, then invited users who are registered on other servers get errors when trying to join. Not very useful error messages either: "Failed to join room". (In my case, I tried creating accounts and rooms at nitro.chat and then at converser.eu, but friends registered at matrix.org don't manage to join).

Quite a let-down. Anyone who's facing the same problem and has maybe managed to solve it?

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So I'll keep this brief. I really like Matrix's idea of a decentralized messaging platform, and after thr Telegram CEO got arrested in France, some friends are feeling iffy about staying there.

The main point of friction I'm encountering, however, is that whenever anyone goes and looks at Matrix and looks through available public servers to join, they're pretty quickly coming across some very undesirable rooms, to put it tactfully. Are there any ways that I could limit their visibility or ability to interact with those rooms? Server listing sites that make an effort to avoid listing those kinds of rooms, ways to block a room from showing up when you search within the client, etc? Currently we're running matrix.org accounts and using Element for PC/Android, to keep things simple.

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It used to be extremely flimsy and unstable but more recently it actually runs pretty well. I can actually use my self hosted server now. It doesn't crash when I join a larger room.

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I am part of a network of local groups spread across the world. We would like to set up a private Matrix space for the members of the network. Since the local groups are the only ones who have an overview over who their members are, they should be able to add and delete their members as needed.

Does Matrix allow such a federated permission model? The closest thing that I could think if so far would be that each local group creates their own space and manages their members there. The network space would be configured to be accessible for members of all those spaces. The problem with this approach is that as far as I understand, once a member has joined the network space and some of its rooms, they will remain a member of those even if they are removed from their local group space.

Are there any suggestions how such a system could be implemented? Surely this is something that many decentralized networks and organizations are facing.

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I use the desktop app frequently and it would be great to have a modern, fast(er) app

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Does it work well? Which one to choose? The official Matrix site shows 3 that seem maintained:

Does anyone have some insight? I don't want to try all of them.

Edit: I don't need anything super fancy like double puppeting. I just want the data from the several Discord communities I joined available through my Matrix server. And it's just me using it. But it should bridge the rooms properly and include the popular media formats, reactions etc.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

I have heard these words used a lot in Matrix documentation. Here's what I think they mean:

  • Bot: Like a Discord or Slack bot, can be run off of a normal account on a homeserver (no homeserver hosting required)
  • Bridge: Connects Matrix and another messaging service, self-hosted homeserver seems to be required
  • Integration: Another name for a Bot, or is it something displayed in Matrix clients (ex: Element has n Etherpad integration)???
  • Appservice: A better bot???

There's also the whole language around bridges (puppeting, plumbing, etc.), but that's for another question.

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Edit: Question based on DMA: element.io/blog/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/

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I have a TrueNAS scale NAS setup and I would like to host a matrix server. Do I have any options? Any particular implementation that I should go with? Does anyone have any experience with this?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hey, I'm fortunate enough to upgrade my home-server. I'd like to make some future-proof decisions. Which Matrix server do I choose? Dendrite? Conduit?

I like the candidate to be halfway well maintained, have active development during the next 4 years... Would be nice if it had a solid technological base and wouldn't hog that many resources. I'm okay if it still has some rough edges as long as they get ironed out in the near future.

It needs to provide service to me and a few friends and family. Audio calls would be nice and I definitely need it to connect to the Mautrix-WhatsApp/-Signal bridges.

Did I miss something? Is there another good server implemention apart from Synapse/Dendrite/Conduit?

Bonus questions:

  1. Is Synapse the only server that can connect to SSO? Ideally I would like to maintain the user accounts via Authentik/LDAP/...whatever...
  2. Is there a server that can handle multiple domains? Like an e-mail server that I can just tell "you handle mail for the following 5 domain names?"
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Exist some solution for spam filters in matrix ? For Example on Proton Mail you can create aliases so I create for each person/service a aliases to avoid spam. I thing we need also a concept for matrix for this problem.

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