XSF Discussion - 2018-10-08

What do people here think of Matrix?

MattJ: yes, I know

that’s a feature!!k

it runs everywhere!

The electron app is a feature?

of course /sarcasm

ksenia, essentially, the Chrome browser engine + a web application bundled in a single application

Electron is the name of the framework which allows to do that

that, too

Well, let me put another way: What would be reasons to set up a chatroom as a replacement for their Discord in XMPP or in Matrix?

why do they want to quit discord?

why would you want them to do that?

forcing people over to something else is rarely turning out well

point is, they have to come up with reasons why they wanna switch, not you

I think that avoiding dependency on a commercial company is a good enough reason.

Many of us are with you on that one, but doesn't make it any easier sadly

yeah, I don’t believe that many people follow that opinion, ksenia

I know

I do, personally, and many in the XMPP and Matrix communities will, but not the general public

Hence that I want to make it easier to them.

so, that’s not a reason *they* will come up with

ksenia: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure