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cos

@miah all of them apply to Matrix except running a server on 486. OTOH also regular people can use it.

(I was 25 years on IRC, it's one of the good guys)

20 June at 13:42 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org
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Hannah

@cos @miah yeah, I think Matrix, while it has its flaws, has the biggest potential to get on par with features enough to attract regular users.

However there is still the metadata leak problem which I think is hard to overcome.

20 June at 16:30 | Open on queer.party
cos

@scatty_hannah @miah well, IRC has even worse metadata leak problem (or it doesn't even try to hide anything, even client IP's are visible for other clients).

More privacy focused alternatives such as pure P2P messengers have their place but they sacrifice lot of features and are very niche.

20 June at 17:31 | Open on fosstodon.org
Hannah

@cos @miah completely agree. IRC is from a time when people didn't even think about that.

And yes, everything has tradeoffs.

20 June at 17:45 | Open on queer.party
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