#matrix protocol

A friend and I spend a good chunk of the past week looking into Discord alternatives because of Discord speeding up towards enshittification.

We looked into two popular alternatives, Revolt and Matrix/Element, and wanted to share what we found from a non-techie Discord user's perspective. We put our findings here along with articles going into detail about Discord's increasing decline. Feel free to reach out if you find typos, broken links, or outright mistakes!

Personally I've started moving my community to Revolt because it's a better fit for my community, but I will be keeping my Matrix account in case other Discord communities decide to move over there. Depending on what your Discord server needs and techie levels, both can be good alternatives. Neither are outright replacements and both are undergoing development, so both options should continue to improve in the future.

Tumblr, I'm thinking about running a home server for cool stuffs, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm gonna put on it. So far I've got:

Nginx setup

A Matrix home-server

Plans for an arcade-style high-score board for my Tower of Hanoi clone (https://notalakelurk.github.io/tower-of-hanoi/)

and, that's about it.

I might make some more simple web-games with scoreboards, but I'm not yet sure what I might recreate. Maybe I could do something with Langton's ant / Turmites or Conway's Game of Life with configurable inputs? Please tell me if anyone has any ideas whatsoever of what I might host.