Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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It’s not unpopular. The user experience for Matrix is dog shit. Anyone that tries to pretend it’s not is lying to themselves.
There isn’t a single decent client on any platform. It’s slow and unreliable, even if you self host.
I did heavy testing when discord was about to go to shit earlier this year. I run a small server and was looking for a place to move us. It would be embarrassing to present Matrix to them. Especially being normie and not at all technical.
I praise the effort but it is a slow project with poor results. It’s like taking 10 steps back on chat applications. I would even say running an irc server would be more efficient.
I'm not sure this is very unpopular.
Whenever I look into matrix, these problems (especially resource usage) always seem to come up.
Matrix the protocol or Element the client?
The whole stack. I have tried every desktop and iOS client. The protocol is slow and the chat clients are all over the place UI wise.