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avbeav wrote

I've only used Matrix via Pidgin and that worked well enough.

I'm not using it now, not because I don't want to, but because the choice of communication protocol or platform isn't a choice I get to make. Currently, the go-to platform for messaging amongst activists around here just seems to be Signal, and I'm not gonna argue too much about it because at least it's free / open source and better than WhatsApp or Slack or Zoom or whatever latest proprietary shit app that's caught people's attention.

But because Signal is "forced" on me that way, and I don't get the choice of clients that I do with Matrix or email or IRC or XMPP because Signal has that ONE BLESSED CLIENT then at I feel somewhat entitled to complain a bit about the horrible state of their UX.

I am also trying to complain constructively by filing detailed bug reports. Not that it leads to anything being fixed, of course, but at least I try...

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