They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.
(Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)
That’s good news. Hopefully it will gain traction among individuals as well as a viable Discord alternative
I used to roll on the main matrix server, but I’ve been toying with the idea of rolling out a server for just myself here at home for a while now, since I can federate with other servers. Just disable making new accounts after I set up my own account and roll out.
I wanted to like matrix.
I don’t understand the matrix hype. It has never worked for me. Every server is just perma loading / syncing. It’s so slow.
I like Matrix, but it definitely lacks refinement and isn’t particularly user-friendly.
I think of it a bit as being the Linux of messaging platforms.
Matrix sucks pretty bad at federation. But if you run a single closed server internally it works just fine.
Scratching this one of the list then
Do you know what other federated messaging tool governments use? Email! Better scratch that too, just in case.
I’ve heard government uses Linux too. I guess it’s BSD for me! 🙃
