Matrix is dogshit and the backend is no longer fully open source, from what I gather. XMPP stuff is basic, yeah, but Cheogram’s WebXDC apps and Movim as a whole have some really interesting upsides. Not sure why anyone wanted to move away from it.
The Matrix foundation didn’t embrace and extend anything, as they were always in control of the spec.
EEE applies to when corporations (notably Microsoft) embraces projects that aren’t theirs and takes them under their wing, expands on functionality which attracts all the users and makes them the sole developer of that functionality, which kills the old, open forks. Microsoft then kills their version of it, and the whole thing dies.
Hm fair enough, would you say it applies to the situation between Google and Firefox? Because at this point it’s clear donors are a bigger factor than any software community. I made the comparison since the improvements of Rust and the potential it has for Linux and technologies intended to replace XMPP seem to have been politicized, giving NGOs control of projects in a way that could be misused further down the line. They’ll have a legitimate justification for it since they keep the projects alive.
Firefox is in the same situation. Bloated umbrella org (Mozilla) that has dubious funding sources builds subpar products. Look at how much support implementing JPEG XL had, and how they just didn’t care and completely shut the conversation down when Google said no.
Synapse is the backend for Matrix and last I heard, people had been waiting a long time for an update, then it was announced the fixes were going to be on a premium version.
The larger issue is that Matrix (and Matterhorn and some others) development has been funded by NED technology initiatives, and is supported by big clients such as NATO and Reddit (or at least Reddit is using Matrix as a backend for their chats now). So they expect the public to keep their client system healthy while customizing software for the military intelligence arm of the imperialist countries. Meaning our interface will suck. Being reliant on these kinds of things is a long-term weakness.
Yeah it’s got something to do with that & development being split between Dendrite and Synapse. I don’t even really care to know since having to dig up the flaws with it then getting argued with by proponents who don’t like to talk about them makes me annoyed. Many Rust developers have a whole cyberpunk ideology that results in their justifications being peppered with political stuff that sounds straight out of Arab Spring-stan anarchist twitter circa 2016. It’s 2025 and those guys have successfully turned Syria into ISIS land. Yet they won’t stop crying - but, I digress! I do not trust any nonprofit dependent on the world’s largest concentrations of finance capital.
Probably spurred by the crushing knowledge I am the only person in the middle of this venn diagram + nobody else will ever give a fuck as much as me + how perfect and based I am
No; in the case of Matrix it’s because the spec is insanely bloated. Nobody wants to work on that, especially for free.
Matrix is dogshit and the backend is no longer fully open source, from what I gather. XMPP stuff is basic, yeah, but Cheogram’s WebXDC apps and Movim as a whole have some really interesting upsides. Not sure why anyone wanted to move away from it.
You have no idea how funny that is because I called it on a whim half a decade ago.
There’s some acronym for this, EEE embrace extend extinguish right?
The Matrix foundation didn’t embrace and extend anything, as they were always in control of the spec.
EEE applies to when corporations (notably Microsoft) embraces projects that aren’t theirs and takes them under their wing, expands on functionality which attracts all the users and makes them the sole developer of that functionality, which kills the old, open forks. Microsoft then kills their version of it, and the whole thing dies.
Hm fair enough, would you say it applies to the situation between Google and Firefox? Because at this point it’s clear donors are a bigger factor than any software community. I made the comparison since the improvements of Rust and the potential it has for Linux and technologies intended to replace XMPP seem to have been politicized, giving NGOs control of projects in a way that could be misused further down the line. They’ll have a legitimate justification for it since they keep the projects alive.
Firefox is in the same situation. Bloated umbrella org (Mozilla) that has dubious funding sources builds subpar products. Look at how much support implementing JPEG XL had, and how they just didn’t care and completely shut the conversation down when Google said no.
God JPEG XL has me doing the dog having flashbacks in the kitchen GIF
can you expand on this? never heard it before.
Synapse is the backend for Matrix and last I heard, people had been waiting a long time for an update, then it was announced the fixes were going to be on a premium version.
The larger issue is that Matrix (and Matterhorn and some others) development has been funded by NED technology initiatives, and is supported by big clients such as NATO and Reddit (or at least Reddit is using Matrix as a backend for their chats now). So they expect the public to keep their client system healthy while customizing software for the military intelligence arm of the imperialist countries. Meaning our interface will suck. Being reliant on these kinds of things is a long-term weakness.
i thought dendrite was the new hotness?
Yeah it’s got something to do with that & development being split between Dendrite and Synapse. I don’t even really care to know since having to dig up the flaws with it then getting argued with by proponents who don’t like to talk about them makes me annoyed. Many Rust developers have a whole cyberpunk ideology that results in their justifications being peppered with political stuff that sounds straight out of Arab Spring-stan anarchist twitter circa 2016. It’s 2025 and those guys have successfully turned Syria into ISIS land. Yet they won’t stop crying - but, I digress! I do not trust any nonprofit dependent on the world’s largest concentrations of finance capital.
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/
dendrite seems to be written in go nowadays, which i did not expect.
also, what spurred this political tirade? i just sat down!
Probably spurred by the crushing knowledge I am the only person in the middle of this venn diagram + nobody else will ever give a fuck as much as me + how perfect and based I am