kopper [they/them]

over the years of using matrix i’ve become convinced that the people behind it simply have different priorities than people who actually want to use it. they’re mainly interested in the tech parts as opposed to making communication tools.

if you look at the “hype” behind matrix, it’s all about “the protocol”. federation, p2p “host a homeserver on each client”, encryption, bridging, complex state resolution algorithms, peppered with some vague marketing crap about owning your own data. nerd shit or, in the best case scenario, pipe dreams of a magic future that could come with all this flexible tech we’re building

notice how there’s nothing about actual communities. little to any discussion on moderation tooling, or ease of use. it’s all tech. they only care about the tech. the communities? uh well they’ll happen somehow

“matrix chat” is just a tech demo of the matrix protocol the same way https://github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom or that fucked up twitter clone they were building at one point is.

this turned into a bit of a rant but the people working on matrix need to have a deep inner look and explicitly work out if they want to work on “cool tech” or work on tools for building communities. also stop working on so many useless side projects and focus on making one thing that works.