The Matrix.org network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I’m done with it.
I think they are OK. When switching to it couple of years ago ifeared there will be no-one but was please tly suprised. For sure you do t have situation where most of the participants in the room are ghost accounts because presence actually works. So might look smaller but you are sure it’s real users.
But they both closed source protocols locked down to specific corp
But locked in a way where nice third party clients could still interact with them. I never used official clients after a time.
That seems to have gone away.
What would you propose, then?
How about jabber/XMPP
I wish xmpp was p2p. I can self-host but it could be way simpler if people didn’t have to.
How active are communities on these nowadays?
I think they are OK. When switching to it couple of years ago ifeared there will be no-one but was please tly suprised. For sure you do t have situation where most of the participants in the room are ghost accounts because presence actually works. So might look smaller but you are sure it’s real users.