Okay, then if it really is not discord, or to be specific, not self-hosted discord (because I don’t care about the upfront cost of self-hosting), then I’m gonna start ignoring these matrix posts because they seem to be trying to convince people who want - someone in your link used burgers as a metaphor - A burger to instead get a hot dog.

I don’t want a hot dog.

From everything I’ve seen matrix is not comparable to Discord, but instead like a slightly amped Signal. What am I missing?

That’s a funny example to give because I’ve never seen more locally produced honey than in Germany. Feels like there’s a local beekeeper on every block like twice a quarter.