… Paying for public rooms? They are never gonna challange discord like that.
I mean if the idea is to get people off of the matrix.org homeserver and onto smaller federated servers, this might accomplish at least half of that.
1 MB file size limit. That’s officially worse than email. Ridiculous.
And 100 MB if I pay? Wtf, what year is this, 2002?A paid plan on a chat application? Needs a catchy hook… Matrix Nitro, perhaps?
Matrix Multiplier (you know, matrix multiplication, to worsen SEO even more than just using terms like “matrix” and “element”)
Matrix Division, so any chatbot you ask about it can confidently tell you that’s not a thing.
The enshitification is real. Thank goodness it’s federated, just use a different instance or self-host your own.
Well, that’s literally the point - the majority of costs for them are hosting related, so they’re trying to push people to use their own or other servers, which is overall better for the health of the federated network.
It’s not enshittification if you were never paying for it/supporting in the first place, lol.
It might make some kind of sense if there was anything close to feature parity, but at this stage in development, it just isn’t worth paying for at all.
Matrix doesn’t measure up to discord, signal, or telegram in terms of what you can do with it. If it’s going to be paid, it damn well needs to offer something useful for the money, not just lifting arbitrary limits.
I think it does offer something unique - a modern, federated IM experience. But hiding it behind a paywall will just destroy the community.
Or people could support the community by making an account there? Community servers list here.
holup, you can’t send fucking images with a free account!? def no videos with that “limit”.
I’m already in the process of moving my corpo stuff to XMPP but this should precipitate a total exodus, both private and business shit.
That’s only on their server, you can send whatever you want on your own.
