• governorkeagan@lemdro.id
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    5 months ago

    I think the “difficult” part for a lot of people has to do with the network effect. There is more friction to using Matrix over Discord because all of their friends use Discord (as an example). Of course, this wouldn’t apply to everything but it is definitely something that has an effect.

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      5 months ago

      I think I can agree with that. For me it’s a bit the other way around. My friends aren’t on Discord. But the network effect is kind of hard to overcome. I’d say you can learn about privacy and new (to you) software and protocols by spending two or three evenings of your life. But convincing all your friends so it becomes any fun is considerably harder. I’d just name the actual issue, then. Otherwise people confuse it with Linux or Signal/Matrix/whatever being harder to operate.