Matrix

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Matrix is the 3rd most used communications solution in German universities and the one that people are the happiest with (matrix.org)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I wish it was easier to get friends to switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Why don't they? What are their reasons?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

A fun anecdote.

When I was struggling to get my friends to join Signal, the main bottleneck was a friend whose friends used Signal to cheat on their partners 😳😔🤌🙄. Since my friend had a partner, they didn’t want to give off the wrong signal...

What did the trick was Elon Musk tweeting “Use Signal”, 40 million people downloading it in a day, and, perhaps critically, me deleting our WhatsApp group chat.

Hopefully switching to Matrix once easy native stickers are added to the main clients won’t be as hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

They don't really give good reasons other than not wanting to download another app and already having other working alternatives (although they are not privacy friendly).