Egregoros

@p @kaia i can tell you why matrix wont work as discord alternative:

Matrix Spaces dont feel like Discord Servers: Spaces are optional, can be avoided by directly joining to channels and are basically just a list of channels. It is not easy to manage rolles and users over multiple channels / a space and you cant make a welcoming structure like TS / Discord can do it.
Thats actually the main issue.

Next issue is Voice / Video Calls dont work out of the box, admins need to have some knowledge. (At least it was like that once)

Third issue is custom integrations, people would like to have an easy way to integrate bots, custom emojis and stuff, that can be done tho, but it is not easy and fun to do so and custom emojis arent well supported either

Imho those are issues which i dont really care about, i like matrix, but i can understand why people from discord ignore matrix tho