🆕 blog! “I'm never going back to Matrix”
I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/
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#foss#Matrix#OpenSource #rant
Well that's a blast from the past!
Just had someone accuse me of being a "paid-by-Apple shill" who is posting ragebait to drive people away from OSS.
I've not had that insult since I had the temerity to point out some of Android's shortcomings a decade ago!
If anyone from Apple would like to pay me for saying the things I already believe, my rates are very reasonable 😆
In the spirit of fairness, Matrix have published a rebuttal to some of the criticism they've received.
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