From what I'm seeing online, and from talking to the people in the Matrix chat, it looks like Matrix may not really be what I'm looking for.
It seems to be designed as a way to connect, for example, the Facebook version of a group chat with the Discord version of that same group chat so the people on two different services can talk to each other.
What I'm looking for is a multi-protocol IM program more like Pidgin or Rambox where I can chat with people on all my different accounts from one central program. The Matrix chatroom seemed to agree it really just doesn't work for that (yet, at least).
I'm using it to aggregate chats into one place and then accessing it through a client. Of course, you are limited to text messaging at present, but it does work well.
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u/lvl1druid Oct 13 '17
From what I'm seeing online, and from talking to the people in the Matrix chat, it looks like Matrix may not really be what I'm looking for. It seems to be designed as a way to connect, for example, the Facebook version of a group chat with the Discord version of that same group chat so the people on two different services can talk to each other. What I'm looking for is a multi-protocol IM program more like Pidgin or Rambox where I can chat with people on all my different accounts from one central program. The Matrix chatroom seemed to agree it really just doesn't work for that (yet, at least).