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Why not Matrix (2024)

wherever you go, there you are. ben's blog. computers pinball and IRC.

lots of projects and communities have migrated from a host of other platforms, including irc, discord and slack with the promise that their new spaces will be free forever. in some cases, the core matrix team have had to try to forcefully shut down rooms on their own instances and recreate them on more than one occasion, hoping people will rejoin. however, i have found what i believe to be quite a number of reasons to be skeptical of matrix and i would struggle very much to want to recommend it to a new community or enterprise looking for a communication platform.

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