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Alexia Starling 
new blogpost:
matrix is cooked
matrix is cooked
1awawawa2awawawa@alexia I saw Beeper being bought by Automattic months ago and that confuses me
imagine Automattic Chat
I hope this turns out like Threads lol
@alexia about moderation... it's hard for moderators to implement their own moderation tools
I hope Matrix or Fedi servers support mods like in games
Bret Victor's vision for computing is that everyone can make software for their own needs
sarah tonin@alexia i can personally vouch for ircv3. it's not feature rich, it's not perfect, a lot of features you would expect to be there in an IM platform aren't (yet).
But if you want instant messaging that is useable right now and will still exist in 30 years, irc is your safest bet
Sandro 
Misofist@alexia As far as I can tell, Polyphony isn't ready for use yet? I think the Discord-compatible part is Symfonia, but that seems very WIP.
What do you think about Spacebar? I'd imagine similar to Revolt given that it's not federated?
@Misofist
Polyphony actually came from Spacebar and was initially intended to be a new server implementation for that project. Either way I think I haven't heard of anything really happening with spacebar in years.
Polyphony actually came from Spacebar and was initially intended to be a new server implementation for that project. Either way I think I haven't heard of anything really happening with spacebar in years.
Jamie J@alexia I notice you don’t mention Signal (https://signal.org/), Molly (https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android), or Briar (https://briarproject.org/) in the recommendations/anti-recommendations
do you mind my asking if they were intentional omissions? 0:
@slightlyflightyone
briar I just lowkey forgot about, but Molly (and in extension signal) I have actually intentionally ignored, as I was focusing on things that are federated or otherwise sufficiently decentralized
Molly is great, I use it daily, just not what I was looking for :)
Revolt I only even included because I got multiple people telling me to include it, and even then I made clear why I don't personally recommend it as an alternative to matrix
briar I just lowkey forgot about, but Molly (and in extension signal) I have actually intentionally ignored, as I was focusing on things that are federated or otherwise sufficiently decentralized
Molly is great, I use it daily, just not what I was looking for :)
Revolt I only even included because I got multiple people telling me to include it, and even then I made clear why I don't personally recommend it as an alternative to matrix
@alexia I guess Revolt makes sense if the primary way you think of Matrix is as a Discord alternative, but I always have thought of it more like “a Signal alternative that gives off way too many red flags for me to rely on” instead of “a Discord alternative that none of my friends will use”
thank you for the clarification tho c:
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Shine@alexia The worst thing is that all the decisions that resulted in foundation being where it is can be traced back to Element, who was directly in control of the foundation for most of its existence. The community kept pointing out how problematic that is the whole time.
Christian Berger DECT 9314@alexia Well matrix is one of those examples were an overly complex protocol leads to political and economical problems. Since it's insanely complex, there is very little software. There is essentially one client and one server.
@casandro I'd definitely disagree to the client part; There's plenty of those
but server implementations? Not a lot. and those which are there suffer from the fact that the JSON parser in Synapse is faulty and will reject events for not ordering the JSON data right despite the fact that the order shouldn't matter
in other words, they have a hard time actually federating with Synapse, further making an open network with multiple server implementations difficult
but server implementations? Not a lot. and those which are there suffer from the fact that the JSON parser in Synapse is faulty and will reject events for not ordering the JSON data right despite the fact that the order shouldn't matter
in other words, they have a hard time actually federating with Synapse, further making an open network with multiple server implementations difficult