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I think it's perfectly reasonable to say, "I don't know." Ascribing supernatural significance or explanations to what was likely a natural phenomenon isn't helpful.

Any website that implements this API is going to immediately lose me as a user. They can go fuck themselves.

I know this is a joke, but it does allow for /me commands, so this is certainly possible in a client. The macro does not appear to be available in Element, however.

The server you sign up with doesn't matter all that much. Just pick one of the reputable ones and follow the rules. You can generally join rooms on any server.

There are a lot of Matrix clients to choose from; they're not all electron web apps and there's even a terminal app available. There could easily be a Matrix client that behaves the way you want, but I couldn't tell you if one exists. You'd have to try a few and see if they have settings that work well for you.

I guess I'm a little curious about why you wouldn't want persistent chat history. Major IRC networks log all chats anyway, so it's only you who's missing out on having that chat history available if you are ever offline.

They certainly can and will live for a while, but the IRC side is missing out on useful features and I honestly find rooms that are bridged to IRC a little annoying in Matrix because IRC folks generate a lot of join/leave events.

Presence tracking allows users to see the state (e.g online/offline) of other local and remote users.

Disadvantages include (this list is probably not exhaustive):

• Presence is disabled (as this uses a fair amount of resources)
• It has a tendency to be overloaded occasionally because so many people use it
• You have to play by their rules (not a problem for most users, but it bears mentioning)

You could also join other Matrix servers, especially ones that cater to a particular interest of yours.

If you go with self hosting, running a decent personal Matrix server that is capable of joining large rooms like Matrix HQ is likely going to cost you money and/or time.

I used to love IRC and have a fair amount of nostalgia for it. That said, a post advocating for IRC that doesn't even mention Matrix is failing to discuss the best replacement for IRC. Matrix is the IRC killer. After using Matrix, I don't understand how anyone could want to go back to IRC with its net splits, non persistent chat history, lack of rich text, etc.

Personally, I think it'd be nice if you could self-host just the bridge instances and connect them with beeper yourself, so that the part that isn't e2e encrypted is running on software you can validate and hardware you control.

I 100% agree this would be a great solution. That's what I thought this page was going to be at first until I kept reading and realized it's just a config guide for the Matrix Ansible setup. I wish they didn't say "self host Beeper" on that page at all because self hosting Matrix has absolutely nothing to do with the Beeper service other than their devs built the bridges that they're showing you how to set up with Matrix.

It's a "just asking questions" type of comment where the answers are pretty easy to find. It's, at best, a poorly worded comment that could legitimately be seen as offensive and reads like a troll. I don't see it as an effective criticism of Zionism because it lays out incorrect assumptions, asks bad questions, and mocks Judaism (e.g. "sky daddy"). I don't think all of that necessarily qualifies as antisemitism, but there's no inherent value in the comment to defend. I'd be curious which subreddit the user was banned from and it's also possible this comment doesn't exist in a vacuum and there could be a pattern of behavior that was considered.

Here's his YouTube channel.