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n0toose

FYI: Matrix has launched archive.matrix.org, which makes logs of world-readable Matrix channels indexable by search engines.

They made the thing opt-out; the bot (@archive:matrix.org) automatically joins out of nowhere and start archiving. You'd have to ban the bot for it to be removed, which is annoying but OK... if they didn't have a second bot ban evade and do the exact same thing right afterwards under staging.archive.matrix.org/ using @archive:gitter.im yesterday.

23 Jun 2023 at 12:15 | Open on chaos.social
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Marek Küthe

@n0toose Mhh, shouldn't something like this be more opt-in than opt-out?

23 Jun 2023 at 17:09 | Open on layer8.space
bird girl

@n0toose *extremely frizzly fluffed-up cat glare at matrix o_o*

23 Jun 2023 at 18:18 | Open on hackers.town
DeepBlue V7.X

@n0toose Although it doesn't archive anything, it makes the history browsable from a website, which is basically an anonymous Matrix client. I still disagree with them not honoring the "world_readable" setting, but describing it as an archive is wrong (but literally named it that, so...).

23 Jun 2023 at 21:38 | Open on fosstodon.org
n0toose

Discord is absolutely proof of the fact that you don't have to have a good product to succeed.

28 Aug 2022 at 20:28 | Open on chaos.social
n0toose

The only ways they have innovated over the past 3 years is basically by:
a) taking something that everyone was requesting for at least two of those years.
b) them taking something implemented by the community, either bots or custom clients, and then them establishing that into their own product or even banning the thing that created the idea and demonstrated the demand for something that can be as rudimentary as *basic moderation tools*.

28 Aug 2022 at 20:31 | Open on chaos.social
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