I know. I totally agree. But holy shit onboarding is terrible with Matrix. If people struggle wrapping their head around Mastodon, this is much worse.

I found Lemmy to be the easiest onboarding of all the federated networks.

Those are great private messaging solutions, but not great for hosting communities.

Discord took the place of IRC. Chatlogs for IRC were rarely indexed by most channel admins until after about 2010 when projects like freenode hosted all the open source projects for the whole web.

It was purchased by some right wing billionaire and now it is no longer.

Unfortunately this isn’t true. My GenZ niece is trans. Her and her friends believe they have to stay on there for “Reach” and for each other. They are now nearly 4 years into being brainwashed. She explained to me last year how activism was just a meme. (This was before the recent protests)

This platform has trans people believing that pronouns are why things broke down. This is not me using hyperbole, which I often do. Just is.

This was my thought. The weird inconsistent diagnoses, and sending people to the emergency room for nothing, while another day dismissing serious things has been exactly my experience with doctors over and over again.

You need doctors and a Chatbot, and lots of luck.

It’s too bad the open source community couldn’t find some programmers to help them make an alternative.

If Gen Z had left Twitter when Musk ruined it this wouldn’t be happening.

Then they will decide that links to some news stories aret appropriate for kids. No more pesky videos of ICE executing people in the street.

When do social media companies actually do anything to protect kids??

No, let them in so they can tell you you were right. Honestly. I’m one of them. I regret migrating away but nobody was left on IRC. Turns out it’s better that way.

I’ve been trying so hard to work with Matrix. Then once you get it going everything is dead.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Policies on hate speech could include automatic fact checking and community notes displayed to every reader.

If fact checking is deplatforming the alt right, then well, problem solved.