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It's advertising for the wrong people. It's appealing to the users who are already willing to deal with matrix jank, or irc's dogshit UX, or self-hosting.
The people you need to convince aren't the federation and E2EE people, it's the "i want 1 login screen, and seamless client switching, and more than the minimum moderation tools, and a UI that doesn't suck ass"
Start with that, because nothing else will break the monopoly.
I’ve got to say, some Linux people’s fetish for running everything from the command line gets just creepy at times.
I mean things like “why click a button when you could memorize yet another command instead?” pushed to extremes. I don’t want to memorize a text command to play or pause my music, dude.
“Why click a couple of buttons in a GUI when you can instead slowly drive yourself mad trying futilely to remember the proper syntax for a ffmpeg command?”
EDIT: I love providing TWO examples of the command line being an accessibility nightmare, only for people to argue that ackshually, the real accessibility nightmare is not having to type “ffmpeg -ss 01:28:05.035 -to 01:28:14.461 -copyts -i "input.mp4" -ss 01:28:05.035 -to 01:28:14.461 -c:v libx264 -crf 17 -b:v 1M -vf "subtitles=subtitle.srt,scale=-1:320,format=yuv420p" -c:a aac -af "pan=stereo|FL=0.5*FC+0.707*FL+0.707*BL+0.5*LFE|FR=0.5*FC+0.707*FR+0.707*BR+0.5*LFE" -movflags +faststart output.mp4” entirely from memory.
“What do you have to hide?“
Everything.
Full stop. Period.
Every. Thing.
What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.
Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.
It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.
Every. Thing.
It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.
While we’re discussing privacy, no you do not have permission or a “right” to read your partner’s chat messages.
I don’t care if they gave you permission to look through their phone/devices whenever you want.
A chat involves two or more people. They may have given you their consent and permission, but the other people in the chat sure as hell didn’t.
Their privacy is important too.
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