I really, really hope this leads to development of data portability/server migration options. When I set my homeserver up, I chose Synapse as I didn’t know about the other servers. Now that I do, and would like to switch away because of Synapse’s performance problems and the new CLA stuff, I realize I and all my users are fully locked in, and would have to start from scratch (lose all chats, profiles, etc) to migrate.
Just give XMPP a shot… It’s what Matrix has been promising to be without ever actually delivering, was there a decade prior and still will be after the next.
Matrix’s purpose was to be a VC unicorn for is founders, it’s not tackling a new problem, it’s not bringing a novel or interesting solution, and everything that it does differently on a technical level seems to go against its goals and those of its users. Time to drop them was someandsome ago, but it’s never too late.
Is there a good way to handle e2e encryption on xmpp? I feel like that is one of the selling points of matrix. Iirc there was an OTR plugin for gaim/pidgin, but I have no idea what’s normal these days
I really, really hope this leads to development of data portability/server migration options. When I set my homeserver up, I chose Synapse as I didn’t know about the other servers. Now that I do, and would like to switch away because of Synapse’s performance problems and the new CLA stuff, I realize I and all my users are fully locked in, and would have to start from scratch (lose all chats, profiles, etc) to migrate.
Just give XMPP a shot… It’s what Matrix has been promising to be without ever actually delivering, was there a decade prior and still will be after the next.
Matrix’s purpose was to be a VC unicorn for is founders, it’s not tackling a new problem, it’s not bringing a novel or interesting solution, and everything that it does differently on a technical level seems to go against its goals and those of its users. Time to drop them was someandsome ago, but it’s never too late.
Is there a good way to handle e2e encryption on xmpp? I feel like that is one of the selling points of matrix. Iirc there was an OTR plugin for gaim/pidgin, but I have no idea what’s normal these days
My hope for XMPP is that new and better clients emerge than the ones that already exist. Matrix has this same problem as well.