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My friends are open to leaving Discord which has finally given me a reason to look into Element/Matrix. I found the install instructions and am immediately put off. Is this it? No official docker compose? 😞

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[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I’ll look into it, thanks.

I’m still in the information gathering phase. Do you know if the element client works with the continuwuity server? Is it as easy as entering the domain, user, and password in the client?

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 29 minutes ago

Yes both element and elementx and actually any matrix client. That's the beauty of having standards

But its a pain because all clients from matrix. Org will push you to matrix. Org and need manual taps&clicks to select a different server when you sign up the first time. A bit annoying IMHO and maybe even fraudolent.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

Any client should be compatible with any server, if both are fairly up to date. Though, I never found a client nor server that are actually fully feature complete. The closest to that are synapse and element