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Buy-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
by jazzyjackson 2y ago
Buy-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.