@doskel@masto.doskel.net
I'm not going to make this into a joke about decrypting messages. We've all seen them. So instead I'll lay out some of my other issues with Matrix and as I've had an account since 2018 I am pretty well familiar with it. First, home servers seem to just always suck. Maybe that's just a me problem but I've been on a few and they all have the same problem where they are slow as molasses. Maybe this would be fixable if I could host my own but I cannot do that so that's not an option. Second, the client problem. Element is just downright bad, the single worst chat program I have ever used (and I've used bizarre single purpose ones that exist for one single small community that decided to larp as AIM for no reason). FluffyChat is the closest to being good but it's still extremely slow and has bizarre UI decisions that I just do not get at all. I've never used Cinny but the fact that it's an Electron program doesn't exactly inspire confidence in me. I also remain extremely uneasy about the fact that Matrix is controlled by New Vector, New Vector are incompetent scum, and it seems like the protocol is deliberately held back to make New Vector's proprietary bullshit look better. The ecosystem of Matrix in general just gives me a dreadful mouthfeel of the exact kind of techbro brained nonsense that already infests so many other interesting on paper projects. Also comparing Signal and Matrix is just a category error and this is a hill I am willing to die on.
