Matrix is an interesting technology I would love to use on a daily basis. Then I start Element and it feels slow, sluggish, terrible overall.
I turn it off and use Discord again. I know they are fundamentally distinct, but I am not willing to trade in ease of use (which is really REALLY awful) for privacy, and certainly not trading anything for having a distributed system.
You can't even do direct file transfer. There's a feature request open for YEARS... Yet nobody bothers to push it through.
Can we have a federated service that's resilient against outages such as this, where Element would automatically use another server with my same account?
Perhaps the network of servers could even have some redundancy for the last two weeks history of chat messages, minus images.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.9 ms ] threadI turn it off and use Discord again. I know they are fundamentally distinct, but I am not willing to trade in ease of use (which is really REALLY awful) for privacy, and certainly not trading anything for having a distributed system.
You can't even do direct file transfer. There's a feature request open for YEARS... Yet nobody bothers to push it through.
Perhaps the network of servers could even have some redundancy for the last two weeks history of chat messages, minus images.