In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-146/

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@latenightlinux I've been running matrix for years. Yes it has many rough edges but overall I really like it!
Also (at least on synapse) there is a config about the maximum complexity when joining a remote room.