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If you want to run your own little silo completely disconnected from your fellow human beings then it has never been easier. But that was never really all diff
by wvenable 2y ago
If you want to run your own little silo completely disconnected from your fellow human beings then it has never been easier. But that was never really all difficult in the first place. I don't think it's truly the problem that needs to be solved.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoBuy-in from the community is indeed the hard part but I have friends running irc and phpbb we hang out in, and matrix is more or less viable to self host for a group chat, it’s just that 100x more people are using Discord and Signal because of network effects, your one account can give you access to a million communities. I guess activitypub and matrix are meant to be similar in that regard but for whatever reason the learning curve is just a little steeper, so you have to be motivated by ideology to put up with the gaps in usability
- spencerflem 2y agoI really want to love matrix but as it stands right now discord is a lot more usable While im willing to out up with it, its a hard sell to get your friends to use something worse
- johnnyanmac 2y agoYeah, that network effect is always the hard part once you want/need to reach out past your personal circle. Even with a personal circle it can ha hard to make people use a better but smaller service.
- BrenBarn 2y agoMatrix has some promise, but it's also essentially VC-funded despite the way they try to present it.