Notices by NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social), page 37

I don’t think the reason we can’t get good UI/UX out of Matrix or other FOSS chat services has much to do with budgeting concerns. Consider that other FOSS services have a good selection of frontends that people actually like. Example: fedi

Whether you prefer Soapbox, PleromaFE, Misskey, or even Mastodong, the point is, these aren’t UIs that people merely tolerate. They’re UIs people actively like. And they were made by “some guy” on a gratis basis.

I don’t do that unless there are like three concurrent conversations in the same channel and I can’t keep up with them. Topic segregation is the point of channels. But these are janny issues more than software issues.

The Discord ghost town effect is a mismanagement of the style. I run Discord servers and I always make new channels specifically when a certain topic keeps coming up in a channel with a broader topic to the extent that it obstructs other topics from coming up. It’s the containment channel approach, and it’s an approach I got from 4chan. It works very well.

The “servers” with many “channels” structure is fantastic if used properly.

I’ve adopted this disposition where I use Matrix as a bridging protocol between commercial services. This is because Matrix’s backend is where it shines. It’s brilliant because of the encryption and because of the open-endedness of the way “events” are structured (they’re basically just JSON blobs which can have any shape you like), but the true issue with Matrix and other FOSS chat services is their UI/UX is always garbage. Element, Matrix’s flagship client, is a clunky piece of shit and everybody knows it.

I think the fact that every Matrix client is a piece of shit plays into it as well. Not to mention, Discord’s “server” structure where each one has many channels just plain isn’t replicated properly with “Communities” or whatever.

Answers like this explain why Matrix can’t compete with Discord. You aren’t giving people a reason to insist on it over Discord. You’re just demanding that they change what they care about.

Why can’t Matrix compete with Discord?

um sweaty

Looks like my put options are going to start printing soon.

So apparently taking a >$50million loss is succeeding in the box office in 🤡

Been tacitly boycotting these shit companies for years because I just don’t like their products/services. Take the normie pill, stop giving a shit how a company presents itself and start giving a shit if it gives you your money’s worth. (Turns out, wokeshit rarely passes this test.)

Is the NBA the new intelligence agency to replace the FBI?

Functional programming is a meme for autists.

It’s often less than the sniffles. Remember all of those “asymptomatic” cases they wouldn’t shut the fuck up about?