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No, I haven't installed my own instance. If that's a prerequisite to having a good experience, I don't want it. I value a federated open standard, but I'm not

No, I haven't installed my own instance. If that's a prerequisite to having a good experience, I don't want it. I value a federated open standard, but I'm not gonna be the one running it... The android Element client has been sluggish too, but I believe most of the lagginess comes from the matrix.org instance. Matrix supporters seem to brush this off as "oh well, that's just the matrix.org server that's laggy, it's not a problem intrinsic to the protocol." It's the most important server that's borderline unusable!

telmich 4y ago
To be fair, it really isn't designed to rely on one server. And if you don't want to run your own, you can always have someone host the server for you.
dizhn 4y ago
No I thought running your own might offer a worse experience. That's why I asked. I didn't try it myself. Honestly I didn't find matrix to be much worse than Discord. I don't know what people are looking for in these kinds of apps but Discord might be the worst (maybe weirdest?) application I used willingly. Matrix irc bridges are good as an irc bouncer I don't need to run myself and there are a few open source communities that chose matrix as their base. For what I use it for they are fine. My personel favorite in this space is Zulip.