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Showerthoughts @lemmy.world FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 9 mo. ago

Discord would have made a better name for a decentralized network and Matrix would have been better for a private company.

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For all practical purposes Matrix is run by a private for profit and venture-capital funded company called Element / New Vector.
- If the company went under you could continue to selfhost, right?
  
  Yes, but there are IMHO better options like XMPP or IRC that are truely community driven and have stood the test of time.
- I found a related thread to this on Hacker News. It was interesting to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365968
  
  It has improved a bit since then (2019), but mainly because of the detoriating funding situation forcing Element to push the Matrix foundation to try and survive on their own.
  
  Wow that guy sounds like an asshole. No wonder they banned him.
- The Element server is so much more stable than synapse
  
  What element server?
"Element" was originally called "Riot," which was an even better name than "Discord." But, then, governments started adopting Matrix and someone realized "Riot" wasn't corporate-friendly ¯\(ツ)/¯
- mmmm, my favorite symbiote
- governments use matrix for communication?
  
  Yup. It's used by the German Bundeswehr, and by France's DINUM.
  
  Here's a Wired article from a few years ago about its adoption.

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