If running your own homeserver weren't so painful for some folks this might be a bit more addressable, but currently if you're in a few popular rooms it's going to make a monster of your digitalocean bill, and sucks to maintain.
Hint: the correct answer to this is not "Well there's your problem you're expecting to run it on Digital oc-" no, this attitude helps nobody. Like Picard said, make it so.
Re:WhatsApp goes down for users globally
by wakeupcall on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:15PM
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Perfectly understandable. If matrix took off a little more, we might see an increase in resources for the official homeserver, or see more peered homeservers becoming popular (as people today get a gmail account and expect to work with users on offic360 without questioning).
Meanwhile you also have the option to get a client with multi-account support. Again, not all clients have this, but this is again something that no other messenger does, or will ever allow purely for market reasons.
(But also: I don't have the resources to run a separate instance for myself, let alone for my friends.)