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Which is 100% controlled by the Matrix Foundation (and not an international standard like XMPP), which in turn is near 100% controlled by a single UK based company (Element/New Vector). Which makes the distinction between the company and the protocol absolutely moot. I wish it was otherwise.
That's not really true though. If the Matrix foundation, element or any other party does something scketchy just fork it
Have you ever looked at the Synapse codebase? It's almost as bad as Chromium and we all know how impossible that is to "just fork".
That comparison doesn't make sense. They are actively developing Dendrite alongside Synapse. They goal of Synapse is to be the stable version that just works and deploys the new features. Not necessarily being slim and efficient. That's where Dendrite comes in and is very close to being feature parity. Many major servers already are running Dendrite and you wouldn't even notice.
So if Google was actively developing a competitor to Chromium that is much more slimmed down and efficient, then your comparison would make sense.
Huh? Nothing stops you from hosting your own server they can't prevent that
And then? Either you never update it, which likely means you will gradually stop being able to communicate with other people on the Matrix network, or you do, which means you will get those privacy invasive changes on your own server as well. And as I extensively explained elsewhere in this thread, forking is not a realistic option.
I guess I can just remove such code if they ever implement it as the home server is open sourced (Synapse). Plus other implementation exists (Conduit). Still, I will have a look on XMPP and see if it meets my needs. As others points out, I shouldn't persuade but adapt thus I need bridges to connect other services, which Matrix isn't lack of.
XMPP has very nice bridges as well: https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/gateways/slidge/
I preferred xmpp because it's easier to host and consumes MUCH less RAM than a Matrix server. idk how both of them scale, but I only have myself and a few friends and family on my XMPP server and works fine.
Lemme know when there's an actual usable client for XMPP. What software do you even use to connect to XMPP?
I use Gajim, family uses Conversations.
Conversations looks like it was made for Android kit Kat lol. Are you expecting that to be the messaging app killer as a serious recommendation to people
What do you mean? It lacks critical features?
What?