Lemmy World is now on Matrix

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We know most of you were thrilled about our Discord server, so we decided to make you even happier with our very own space on matrix!

And lastly, this one is more for admins of other instances but we have opened a "LW Defense HQ" room which we want to use in our ongoing fight against spammers: https://matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world

Come join us!

EDIT: Madlad @ruud@lemmy.world was easily convinced to set up a lemmy.world matrix server. So I edited the links to the new space and rooms. The old ones still work too!

That means you can now also sign up for a Lemmy World matrix account. Instructions in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/3443207

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Did you know you can bridge matrix to discord? So your discord users can talk to your matrix users?

Yeah I'm aware but we haven't given it a try yet. Does it work well and is it for room/channel or server/space?

it's for channel - room communication. It works well, unless you have a spam problem on matrix because then they bypass the anti-spam protections of discord. but if you don't have a spam problem, it's great

https://t2bot.io/discord/ is a free discord bridge you can use or host your own since the bridge is fully open source

I tried this one but it doesn't do emoji reactions and such. Is that because of the bridge software or is it technically not possible?

I'm not 100% sure, I would ask in the support room for the bridge which should be on that page

I think the problem was that they use a bot at the discord side, which can only react a specific emoji once.

Yes but no. Yes, technically possible. No, I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for - you’d want to create your own bot for your own account (each user needs its own bot), and it’s technically against Discord TOS to use, so use at your own risk.

No each user doesn't need their own bot you just add one bot on the matrix side and one in the discord side

Can you share what type of bot you’re using? The last time I tried this, I had to add a personal app key for the bot, which was linked to my account. It created a bunch of discordbot profiles, one for each user in my contacts, and added them to the server. I’m not positive but I think that anyone who messages these profiles will be messaging my contacts, though I think they didn’t appear in the directory by default. Either way, if anyone wanted to setup a new user, they would need to go through the same process I did, which includes having admin access to the server.

Where did I go wrong?

I'm afk but Honestly if you Google matrix discord bridge you should find it. It really doesn't need all that. I'm running it right now

There’s a few options, which is why I’m thinking maybe I did the wrong one. Do either of these ring a bell?

  1. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord
  2. https://codeberg.org/git-bruh/matrix-discord-bridge
  3. https://github.com/mautrix/discord

IIRC I used mautrix and used puppetting. I assume you’re also using puppetting?

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