It will be interesting to see what the enshitification process looks like for distributed/open source chat programs.

it'll likely be at least somewhat thwarted by forking(one hopes).

Funny how this reply also makes sense if you don't know that "discord", "matrix" and "revolt" are used as brand names here.

funnier yet because matrix's old name used to be riot so it would be "riot or revolt". They really like their violent names don't they. Whatever happened to subtle names like teamspeak or mumble

Matrix can replace the 1-1 and group chat function of Discord, but you would need Zulip to replace the Slack/Teams group forum function. And having them separately kinda kills the whole idea, doesn't it? That's not including that neither have screensharing. Not even sure if they have group audio.

It wouldn’t be the end of the world to have a bundle of independent open source packages held together by shims and glue.