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Perhaps you put your finger on it before, in that given the current state-of-the-art, the range of needs is simply too diverse to be met by a single paradigm. N
by inopinatus 10mo ago
Perhaps you put your finger on it before, in that given the current state-of-the-art, the range of needs is simply too diverse to be met by a single paradigm. Nevertheless I still retain that hope, being disappointed by one effort didn’t break my faith in progress.
- tptacek 10mo agoI think it's hard to overestimate how much Matrix is doing this on hard mode, in circumstances where they can't iterate or clean things up as they go, because they deliberately set themselves up to have a heterogenous installed base almost from the jump. Seen in that light, what else could they end up with but a ball of mud? Since I think that's basically priced in, I think the right thing to do is try to read between the lines and home in on the "good parts" of the design, rather than reflexively rejecting the whole thing because there are "bad parts" they'll never be rid of. That, or adopt a "nothing federated can be good" stance. I'm sympathetic to that!