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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by detaro on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:54AM (#25093510)
free software as a hosted service is a thing.
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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by dmitriid on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:00PM (#25093556)
It is a thing, is there enough of this thing? Is it free? Do these hosted services provide the infra and protection? Do these hosted services solve the issue of the dearth of clients for these services?

And if you look at hosted services like IRCCloud, it turns out they are not that different from Slack/Discord: closed source, for full range of capabilities you need to use their apps.

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