On the side bar it lists the following:
- [Matrix/Element]Dead
- Discord
“Discord” is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as “Dead”, as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?
When leading a chunk of the privacy community you could really use cryptpad (for online documents) and such alternatives.
Good alternatives do exist, and they’re perfectly fine. Unless huge rounded corners and empty spaces on the UI are a requirement, though…
In some cases it’s fine, though, like youtube has pretty good proxy services (for now…) that are basically effortless to use for viewing videos. Until a usable alternative emerges.
About Element: yes it’s garbage because the backend’s API design was… not good. End of the year they are finalizing an API that works much better, and let’s clients not to waste resources. There’s a new element app for android that takes advantage of it, and I can tell from experience, it’s usable now even on a throttled mobile connection when you have not opened it in a long time (weeks). They will also fix the web client.