Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
I'm fine with the criticism of #Matrix on Fediverse, I do that sometimes myself in private rooms or sometimes blog posts, but holy shit, I wish that criticism didn't have as much toxicity and misinformation in it as it currently have.
On one hand there are Matrix fans who unconditionally scream how great Matrix is and can solve all world problems, and on the other there are nostalgia gremlins praising IRC over high heavens as an alternative to commercial platforms like Discord for literally everyone because Matrix is "literally unusable" or something.
Both groups are delusional IMO.
re: Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
@Frisk One that particularly tends to irritate me is the people conflating "Matrix, the protocol" and "the stuff that Element builds" and making grand proclamations about how Matrix as a concept was clearly a terrible idea, and their 'evidence' is all just complaints about the bad implementation quality of Element stuff.
And you can tell that they know virtually nothing about Matrix as a protocol, and haven't even entertained the possibility that maybe they're fixable problems... and the result is that they end up yelling at the people who are trying to fix *the very issues they are complaining about*.
And yeah, it's usually the "IRC is best" folks.
re: Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
@joepie91 Oh, this is definitely true. There are a lot of people unable to disentangle the protocol called Matrix and its clients.
Though I do suppose there is Matrix (protocol) and Matrix (ecosystem), both are integral in terms of how Matrix as a whole is perceived.