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[โ€“] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, yikes, that does seem poorly-designed for the majority of use cases. Thank you for taking the time to write that up and recommend alternatives, I really appreciate understanding it better.

[โ€“] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

There are advantages, but I think a lot of folks are tracing trends in this space (including trying to copy Slack/Telegram/Discord rather than be better or strip the bad parts out). Newer โ‰  better.