SwooshBakery624 [they/them]@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 16 days agoHow shitty standards stick aroundprogramming.devimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squareUiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-215 days agoMeanwhile everyone is using Discord (still after Chinese funding, enshittification, age verification) A fringe moved to non federated options Fluxer Haven Stoat Matrix is too expensive to host, xmpp has no clients to use IRC can’t even edit a message.
minus-squareGinny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days agoEditing messages is for cowards. Just dno’t make mistake.
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoIf someone uploads a photo or video, the server hosts it and sends to everyone. Expensive
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoIsn’t that how it’s supposed to work? What’s the alternate model?
minus-squarenkk@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days agoI think they meant each server hosts the same files, not just the home server. Here’s how Fluxer plans on doing it: https://fluxer.app/blog/roadmap-2026#why-polyproto-and-not-matrix
Meanwhile everyone is using Discord (still after Chinese funding, enshittification, age verification)
A fringe moved to non federated options Fluxer Haven Stoat
Matrix is too expensive to host, xmpp has no clients to use IRC can’t even edit a message.
Editing messages is for cowards. Just dno’t make mistake.
Why is matrix expensive?
If someone uploads a photo or video, the server hosts it and sends to everyone.
Expensive
Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? What’s the alternate model?
I think they meant each server hosts the same files, not just the home server.
Here’s how Fluxer plans on doing it: https://fluxer.app/blog/roadmap-2026#why-polyproto-and-not-matrix