For me, the benefit of discord is not the text chat but the voice aspect. With push to talk/voice activated transmission and low latency for gaming.
The voice features of matrix are more of a conference call thing.
Until this gets implemented in matrix (not sure if ever) I'll continue hosting mumble (or TeamSpeak)
You can do a disk benchmark on the server to be sure
Yes your Matrix homeserver does have to run the bridges. So I agree with you - you have to somewhat trust the admins of your Homeserver, or host your own homeserver and bridges. But I understand that the latter is not for everyone.
Which funnily enough, has bridges to Signal, Whatsapp, Discord, Telegram and some more, meaning you wouldn't have to have as many other clients installed to chat with contacts on those platforms
Because it's one thing to cruise along with a ship and just unspool some cable into the water but a whole other thing to dig hundreds of miles of trenches deep under water.
Man, can't wait to never see these fixes on my 4 year old phone...
Also look at the memory of you haven't already - run memtest
Knowing where the Netherlands begins?
That would be huge and would make me and my friends switch from mumble/discord to matrix. However, i fear that high latency may be an issue.