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Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (11 children)

My instance is discord bridged. When discord user wants to voice chat, I fire up discord just for that.

But my discord text chats and servers? All in matrix baby.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (10 children)

    I have that too, but you have to be admin to be able to do that, and I didn't figure out how to connect the 1-1 chats in Matrix yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (9 children)

    Once you have the bridge plugin set up, you need to talk to it in matrix to set up your stuff. Just open a chat with whatever your config says its username is. I set mine to be @discordbot

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I have it set up with rooms where several people are in but have no idea how to set it up in 1-1 rooms.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (7 children)

    Oh, you're using it for just bridging group chats.

    For one to one you need to link your matrix account to your discord account using the !login command. After this you can access everything that your discord account can access. Manually managing anything except for which server you want bridged is completely unnecessary.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

    Oh that sounds much better, I'll try it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Ah, there's more than one bridge available. I am using mautrix-discord, if you are using matrix-appservice-discord, mautrix has a far superior featureset, full double-puppetting, server bridging, typing notifications. It is also in more active development.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm using https://www.t2host.io/discord/ because I thought it'd be easier to use than hosting it myself.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Ah, that's cool, I hadn't even looked into options like this as I always intended my node to be closed. But this wont ever do what a proper self-hosted bridge can. When installed and attached to the matrix server you are on, the bridge is able to do a lot more thanks to the access permissions that brings. Such as double puppeting, which means that if you send a message in discord, it actually gets bridged in reverse, and the bot add the message as you in matrix, too, keeping both chat histories matching.

    With mautrix, you get everything you had in discord, in your matrix account:

    Spaces are used to mirror every server you decide to link, and the DM section is also present. The inly thing that doesn't work is anything with voice or video.

    Do you host your own matrix instance? Or are you on someone elses?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It's probably fine, but I recommend never using tools like t2host.io. If anything happens to them, the credentials of thousands of users could be exposed, if you self host your own bridge the risks are lower, as someone would have to target YOU directly and hack YOUR server directly to get the credentials.

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