Matrix is the 3rd most used communications solution in German universities and the one that people are the happiest with : matrix

[+] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Hopefully! I'm not sure it will happen though. Once a university is on Office 365, they get Teams for "free", whereas with Matrix you need to set up and admin your own servers. North American universities seem to be either Microsoft or Google and nothing else.

Also, I'm really surprised MS Teams still ranked so highly in Zufriedenheit. The university I work for is an all-Microsoft shop and we have to use it daily. Every once in a while, I see people using Teams unable to use the rest of their computer since Teams sucks up all the CPU during video calls. Some researchers simply refuse to use it (and pick Zoom instead).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I wish it was easier to get friends to switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Why don't they? What are their reasons?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

A fun anecdote.

When I was struggling to get my friends to join Signal, the main bottleneck was a friend whose friends used Signal to cheat on their partners 😳😔🤌🙄. Since my friend had a partner, they didn’t want to give off the wrong signal...

What did the trick was Elon Musk tweeting “Use Signal”, 40 million people downloading it in a day, and, perhaps critically, me deleting our WhatsApp group chat.

Hopefully switching to Matrix once easy native stickers are added to the main clients won’t be as hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

They don't really give good reasons other than not wanting to download another app and already having other working alternatives (although they are not privacy friendly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Finally a good news!

[+] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Hopefully more people use Matrix soon

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

So cool. I can get why. The celebration effect for the emote is pretty dope. And I'm not kidding thats a thing on element

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

lol I haven't seen it. I mostly use Element as a leisure browsing app... I'll make it a daily chat app when Element/other-clients add native stickers that aren't hard to customize.

But that emote sounds cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Now I’m curious. What kind of stuff is there to leisurely browse on matrix? I always thought it was just highly specific, mostly tech chat channels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

You’re right! It’s sort of odd... I guess it’s sort of a ‘browsing outside of a store, looking inside and wishing you’d be able to fully participate’ kind of browsing. I just go in, see what people are saying in the rooms I care about, and leave...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

Oh yeah. I haven't really understood how stickers work at all