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   Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 02:38:26 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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   • James Just James

   @purpleidea @gangrif
   The UI/UX is bad IMHO, and the overhead in the admins doesn't make it easier.

   I think Matrix tried to be a hybrid between IRC and Discord, but is failing at being either, and its own identity is weird, to say the least.

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     James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 02:38:27 JST James Just James

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     • [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle:

     @gangrif Nah, it's the right platform from the available choices, it's just that their various UI's are seriously unpolished. Once that improves and becomes less buggy it will do fine.

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     [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle: (gangrif@social.undrground.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 02:38:28 JST [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle:

     Of all of the chat platforms I have available to me. I like Matrix the most, but i struggle to get others to use it.

     It's free, private (if you need it to be), and could replace Discord as a platform. But I cant seem to convince others to join me, even groups of fellow nerds, they just arent interested.

     After a long time, carrying the Matrix torch, I am considering abandoning ship. One less platform to monitor (admittedly its easy to monitor,. NO ONE interacts with me there), one less service to maintain (i run my own homeserver), one less piece of software to monitor for updates. One less window to have open all of the time, and One less app on my phone.

     Talk me out of it folks, am I wrong here?

     #matrix #chat #federation #decentralization