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A comment on Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join y... by bawolff on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:37AM (#50405878)
You are getting downvoted, but i can't help but wonder the same thing. Matrix/element is one of the worst chat clients i have ever used. Nothing works.

Forget normal people. How are you convincing techies to use this. Obviously there are other open source E2E encrypted chat programs that are half decent, but i never understand how people are convinced to use matrix of all things.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join y... by SoftTalker on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:44AM (#50405926)
Some people are drawn to complexity and tinkering. Many of them work in tech.
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Re:Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join y... by Arathorn on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:54AM (#50406010)
what things didn't work, and what server & version of Element were you using?
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Re:Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join y... by Arcuru on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:59AM (#50406050)
I was convinced to move into the Matrix ecosystem because of the promise/focus on bridging it into other things. I was hoping the clients would improve enough to be usable.

I think that was 5 or 6 years ago, and the clients have somehow gotten worse.

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