I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future! The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not …
SimpleX public rooms work smoothly, IMO, but a lot of rooms have problems with casual Nazism and general rudeness. Some are more moderated than others. I gave up on groups eventually and just use it to talk to people I know.
I don’t see how that’s a SimpleX problem. People like that are obviously going to gravitate to “free” platforms where they’re free to be shitheads. There’s no administrative oversight. That’s what you want.
When they start aspousing conservative viewpoints through the app then I will object. Until then, I welcome the free and open communication platform that it currently is. Because they are in short supply these days.
SimpleX public rooms work smoothly, IMO, but a lot of rooms have problems with casual Nazism and general rudeness. Some are more moderated than others. I gave up on groups eventually and just use it to talk to people I know.
I don’t see how that’s a SimpleX problem. People like that are obviously going to gravitate to “free” platforms where they’re free to be shitheads. There’s no administrative oversight. That’s what you want.
Well, considering the founder tweets right-wing extremist posts and conspiracy theories, he’s just calling his people home.
I hope someone forks this project lol
When they start aspousing conservative viewpoints through the app then I will object. Until then, I welcome the free and open communication platform that it currently is. Because they are in short supply these days.