[Jnr]

At this point I just want them to die off completely so we could get something better. They have been unable to make real improvements that make using Matrix a nice experience. And their existence somehow inhibits other solutions from emerging in the OSS community chat space.

[Arathorn]

> And their existence somehow inhibits other solutions from emerging in the OSS community chat space.

How?

[mystraline]

People new to the system think that Matrix can work. So FLOSS devs spend time trying to lipstick the pig. Takes time away from other areas.

Matrix is completely busted, for the article's aforementioned reasons, and others.

My complaints is that ive seen child sexual assault imagery on your primary servers, hours later (and thousands of CSAM images) finally the user banned. And still does it cause some federated server they are connected to still allows them to be half-joined to a room.

The only safer way to federate is to disable image caching and preloading, and ideally defed from matrix.org.

And combined are the laughable moderation tools. I'm sure for some gov deployment, they're not going to spread child sex images. But on the public internet, even basic tooling is a joke.

I recommend all Matrix admins to discontinue. Its frankly too legally dangerous to run it, given all the various failure modes and E2EE failures.

Its 1 size doesnt fit at all. And it being gone would allow others to potentially succeed.

[immibis]

half baked solutions often "crowd out" potential better solutions. If something works enough, someone is less likely to make one that works well. Especially when there's a network effect involved.