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   JC Brand (jcbrand@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 17:10:19 JST JC Brand

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   • Michael Downey 🧢
   • MattJ

   @mattj @downey

   This definitely goes both ways.

   You'll be hard-pressed to find (for example) a Hacker News comments page for an article about XMPP that does not include a bunch of people talking about how Matrix is better.

   Tribalism is a base human tendency and also manifests in FOSS projects.

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     MattJ (mattj@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 17:10:25 JST MattJ

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     • Michael Downey 🧢

     @downey
     Sadly, for every anti-Matrix post I can show you an anti-XMPP post. But apart from singling out #XMPP, I totally agree with your point.

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     Michael Downey 🧢 (downey@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 17:10:26 JST Michael Downey 🧢

     Some communities must be really insecure or self-conscious about their #OpenSource projects if they constantly feel the need to barge in and bash similar projects whenever someone praises it.

     This not only make them and their community look bad, it also makes #FreeSoftware look bad as well.

     Innovation and creativity are healthy and should be encouraged, not shunned.

     I'm talking about you, #XMPP.