From an outsiders perspective, element has never worked for me and never been stable enough to get anywhere close to discord. Joining servers is buggy AF and Element X is severely hobbied on mobile.
I’ve been refusing to use discord for about 6-8 months and am often invites to join various discords by IRL friends and online communities. I wish Matrix / Element was a viable alternative but I’ve never been able to get it working for anythung other than DMs, and I’m already happy with Signal for that honestly.
As a non developer I want to be sensitive to the amount of work involves, and the number of cooks in the kitchen, but the fact that we don’t have a FOSS- federated slack / discord killer app is leaving so much interaction on the table.
I’ve heard of Revolt but it doesn’t seem to be there with encryption
Very much in the AI skeptical and even anti-AI crowd. I appreciate the attempt and it does feel aligned with Proton’s overall direction / mission.
I just tries it in a web browser and it was 0/2 of the first two questions I asked it.
It is really exhausting and annoying to have assistants baked into everything now just so “ready to help”.
Will probably check back in a year and see if this still exists and if it is has improved. In the meantime I’m doing just fine without any AI whatsoever