• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    element do it, and do better, it’s just company wanting money but don’t want to spend money fixing it, that’s why it’s electron, and not other better alternative, it’s cheap and easy to develop, not fast

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      1 year ago

      You must be in only tiny rooms because element absolutely dies when joining anything busy. They recently implement sliding sync to help mitigate this.

      Also yeah, the discord desktop app is garbage, I’ll admit, but I’m talking about the website

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        tbf that’s partly matrix the protocol being inefficient as fuck. element the client can’t really fix that.

        whose idea was it to synchronize the entire fucking history of a channel to every individual instance? for a chat app?

        (yeah the matrix guys want to be a global federated generic data store and not a chat app i know, but all this has ended up with is a mediocre chat app and a few toy projects nobody cares about)

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          i guess maybe it’s was the same problem with lemmy, only small instances and communities exists, and small money incentive, so they can’t do much to make it better?

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            matrix is being used by several (mainly european) government agencies. element (as in the for-profit company spun off from the matrix foundation) has the money, it’s just they’re compromising on the wrong stuff as they’re aiming to be a mediocre “do everything” protocol rather than a good chat protocol