I am glad someone can admit it failed and we have to learn from this. I am just wondering what it takes to succeed.
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The thing is... What alternatives are there? Signal can't be trusted (on the very same website there is an article about it). I'm not using closed source alternatives, Simplex is kinda shady too tbh and I'm not even sure I could get anyone to use it.
I don't like Matrix/Element either but sadly its the best open source chat solution we have.
The article author went back to XMPP, which does appear to be the best option currently.
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xmpp mentioned, I'll add IRC
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I am still mad that are no mobile clients that supports multiple accounts. So I am ending up installing for each account a different client.
Edit: added mobile.
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I'm completely afraid of logging into fedora.im now. It's so engulfed in spam, not even normal phishing spam. Absolutely horrifying spam, like gore and killing and other deranged shit.
I had to move back to matrix.org and abandon my account.
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