Well, majority of people discord is focused on do use them. That is how it is. When Matrix offer something meaningless (for them) like e2ee or federation in exchange for not having gifs and being “too complicated to set up”, you’ll never get this people to use it. It just makes no sense for them.
Matrix will never replace discord, because implementing gifs took them like 10 years so far and it’s still not even a concept. And imagine discord like experience without gifs. Impossible.
Which is sad, because Matrix is otherwise absolutely great! It’s just not focused on casual users at all.
I use some kind of temp mail quite regularly. Some websites I visit offer free download of stuff in exange for email address to get newletter (and other marketing/ad bullshittery). Temp mail is ideal for this.
The more I discover about US election system the more confused I am, lol. This is like some form of centuries old comedy and not like current event real president may come from.
I’m using free Standard Notes account for couple of years and it’s pretty solid for basic note taking. It obviously lacks all the bells and whistles of paid version, but I’m fine with this for the great price of $0.