I will be upfront with this, and say that I’ve never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it’d gotten better in the year or so since I’ve last used it.
This just… Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I’ve tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can’t find a way to change that.
Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can’t.
I run Mattermost at home since several years, and now I am switching to Zulip.
Mattermost is also enshittifying itself and imposing limits like those that caused us to flee from Slack.
Zulip is (afaik) true FOSS without venture capital, and has no restrictions. It’s what we should habe done from the start.
Neither of those supports E2EE unfortunately.
TIL about Zulip, thank you.