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      I’ve used matrix. I am still using matrix. Just not for anything with a significant community

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        NixOS uses it, and it has the biggest repo out of any distro, so I’d consider it a significant community

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      Servers & clients use too many resources. Because of this, most have centralized around Matrix.org which kind defeats the purpose.

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        Servers & clients use too many resources.

        Didn’t XMPP solve that in, like, 1999?

        (Really, what is with devs and nu-protocols these days? Back in my days you could run a webhost on a potato)

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          The did, but Matrix is coming to reinvent that while but by wasting resources trying to duplicate the state of everything at massive storage costs & without the extensibility because JSON.

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            8 months ago

            The server itself doesn’t matter, you can migrate it to AWS or your own physical server if you oenn the domain

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              The server does matter when it comes to who is collecting all of the metadata, data, attachments. …And having that all that data centralized around a single entity is a problem.

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                  Matrix.org hosts Mozilla’s Matrix server. Further, the way all data is synced to all servers means if someone with a Matrix.org ID joins your room (which is most users), all data is synced to the home server. Almost all of the data is in Matrix.org’s possession & with the servers being as expensive as they are to run, more orgs shutdown when popular causing users to flock to the mother instance.

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                    Hosting the server doesn’t mean you get to access the data. My server is hosted on Oracle, but that doesn’t mean they can access it