Yes Matrix is open source so technically if there's a backdoor people should be able to find it. But the dev team behind Matrix sketches me out so I wouldn't be surprised if they sneakily hid a backdoor.

Personally I wouldn't trust "privacy' software developed by an Israeli company which has made spyware in the past. It's not direct evidence that Matrix has backdoors, but sometimes stuff is just sketch.

We switching to Fluxer

Good points. I have been trying to spin up my own instance because the alternatives are still not up to snuff but Matrix seemed a decent alternative if self hosted.

I just saw another article today about XMPP which was going to be my last ditch effort, but that will be my next foray it seems!

Not sure I follow what you mean by temperature? Socially I’d say it’s all over the place. You can make channels for whatever you like. To be transparent the only feature to me missing is streaming / screen share. And the mobile apps need a lot of work ..

thanks. it's really weird that they don't make clear if this monetization feature will be limited to their main instance or will be available to selfhosters too

would this add a limitation of some kind, would every selfhoster be required to add this feature do be federated?

i'm gonna keep looking at XMPP at the moment

This is what I’ve ended up doing, too. Now the only issue is that we’re missing noise suppression. The boys are not passing this year’s emissions testing.

The app looks and runs like a university project.

By which I mean badly

Found another “new” discord clone called Kloak. Slightly curious as they claim to use purely a username and key to identify you and nothing else.

Some of the site seems AI generated and the project is entirely closed source. I am curious but I have my reservations even trying it.

Right now it appears registration is closed which is also odd.

https://kloak.app/

Might be worth keeping an eye on. But it might be worth entirely avoiding

Stoat and it’s been mostly fine, but they’re already implementing age verification.

Can you elaborate on this? I can't find anything about it online

I seem to recall the one for Root was particularly bad, can't remember for the others.

Oh, hot shit! I know about Movim, it's just not my main client (notifications are finnicky, and offline messages don't seem to work right for me?), but them adding discord-style rooms is great!