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Installation hardship does not inheritly mean control over thing in question. You are never tied to the flagship instance, nor to Element as a client; if you have hard time selfhosting it, you can alway choose a provider who went through weeds and enabled signups. Admin of my homeinstance hosts a Matrix instance, so I stuck with it, and I use Fractal to access it. I don't feel inferior to users of flagship instance either. You are not wrong in that it is tedious to self-host, never did this myself, but folks who did almost universally tell it's such a mess of a service. At least whatever that main Python backend, I believe people had better experience hosting the beta Rust one. |
@noctilua @dansup well no matrix has many problems on the libre side and the element company having effective control of the platform and clients. I will not use it.