(#4xdp7oa) @lyse You'll remembers attempts at trying Matrix too🤣

(#4xdp7oa) daaaamn... I haven't used Matrix in ages, just Telegram, WA, Discord and Teams... I think I got used to those. Perhaps that's because none of my acquaintances is in Matrix or XMPP, what am I missing?

(#4xdp7oa) @eapl.me Discord… 🤮

(#4xdp7oa) I never tried it, @prologic. And I probably never will after this catastrophic report. @eapl.me @bender E-mail, IRC and Jabber, that's it for me.

(#4xdp7oa) @lyse Since I switched some family members over to FluffyChat (an alternative Matrix client), the headache has been reduced a bit. The default client Element has way too many buttons and options and submenus and what not for the average casual user. And since I’m running my own non-federated Matrix server, I dodged many of the bullets described in the blog post. The Emoji thing is really funny, now that I think about it. “Are they the same?” Haha, no, obviously not. But us nerds, we don’t even notice that this is a problem. 🥴 Reminds me of the different Emojis for „🔫“ (some fonts show a revolver, others a SciFi gun, others show a water pistol …).

(#4xdp7oa) @movq Yeah, the visual emoji thing is silly. Picking letters or words only would have been way too easy… So oldschool! But that's what you get with today's kids, they're all emoji power users. Luckily, my terminal font shows all the same seven squares in the correct order. :-D I think I see a water pistol in Firefox.