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Looks like Matrix is about to see an influx of users. And they can't shut down Matrix.
I highly doubt regular users will exchange Discord for Matrix. Don't get me wrong, Matrix is great and all, has some great features, but given its open decentralized way it is and probably always will be mostly for tech savvy people. Now given how half of the Discord (the part I know) is memes and gifs spam, it's not really easily reproducible with Matrix. At least last time I checked Element still didn't have gif picker...
Sounds like a good thing overall.
Many Russians already use matrix, they may not use it seriously but they use it.
I mean in the past few days I've seen like 20 Russian trolls, spamming scat porn, racial slurs, racist memes, extremist memes, you name it.
So yeah I would say that matrix is already decently popular among Russians. Maybe not for legitimate use but it's still definitely popular among them.