@dushman so here's how a good user experience goes when it comes to media. You download the app, you type in a username and a password, and because we're talking about a federated service we're also going to take the leap of adding in a domain name for the instance, and then it just works. From there, you don't have to do anything. You don't have to set everything to Auto download. You don't have to fiddle with the settings. You don't have to download f-droid and then download this other thing from f droid. Joining a channel is one click experience. The list goes on.

That's what a good user experience is like and that's what literally none of these federated chat services even attempt to offer. They just don't. I've used these things and getting it to function is always this endeavor where there's at least like three fucking work around you have to do before you can get it to send a picture or whatever

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