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• D06M4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Probably the uncertainty of choosing a server and have it either vanish unexpectedly or it’s admins ban your account without prior warning or transparency, which is also pretty common here in the fediverse.

  I always help onboard people choosing one or two longstanding servers they might like. The last time I told someone to just use the matrix.org server to begin (years ago) it had closed registrations two hours earlier. Never again. 😅

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  • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait but isn’t matrix.org available to anyone now?

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    • D06M4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It probably is. They just close registrations from time to time. But other smaller servers are usually a better choice.

      There’s a couple of server lists I like to check.

      • tatsumoto-ren.github.io/matrix/
      • servers.joinmatrix.org

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      • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I agree that smaller communities might care more about the users, but they often heavily depend on single individuals which is a heavy risk factor long term imo

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• gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But that’s not how it works…

  • Oh you want to get on Matrix?

  Download one of these 8 apps that’s only available through a website or F-Droid, 2 haven’t updated in 2 years, no we won’t tell you which.

  • Then go to one of the 20 million homeservers

  no they’re not servers, it just is where your account info lives, and nothing else

  • Then you have to find servers on your own

  there’s no “Explore” mode, there’s 20 websites that list servers, 5 of them are outdated, another 5 only work on a Tuesday

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  • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just use the Element client on desktop and Element X on mobile. Use the Matrix.org homeserver by the matrix foundation if you don’t know any other/better choice for you personally. Bam and you’re in. I actually really value the choice in clients tho. With the decentralized way of Matrix there’s lots of options but just pick the mainstream once for starters

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    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Doesn’t solve the last two points

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      • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well its not discord so ofc there’s not as much traffic. And the decentralized listing is just part of the decentralized nature of it. Lemmy also doesn’t have as much traffic as reddit yet here we are

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