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Nerd here. I don't care to sign up for a chat service that my friends aren't using. I did look into matrix, but either I have to host a server myself or I will
by tomjen3 6y ago
Nerd here. I don't care to sign up for a chat service that my friends aren't using.
I did look into matrix, but either I have to host a server myself or I will forever be stuck on one other guys server, right? Then there is no reason to move to it and it is not really anymore federated than email.
- remirk 6y agoIn what way is it not federated like e-mail? > or I will forever be stuck on one other guys server, right This is valid criticism at the moment. There is work being allocated on fixing this issue, with multiple protocol drafts, but it might take a year a two before you can finally transfer accounts between servers.
- Arathorn 6y agoWe're aiming to get portable accounts early next year, as part of the P2P work, using the approach at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787. P2P Matrix is unusable without it.
- remirk 6y agoAwesome! Thanks for the reply Matthew!
- tomjen3 6y agoI meant to say that it is not more federated than email: sure I can write to anybody using any service but my @gmail is forever bound to googles service. In my mind a true federated service would allow me to move my stuff from one place to any other place, kinda the way I can move my domain to a new host.