Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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    2 months ago

    Now that we have Matrix? I would have agreed with you in 2010.

    • nicocool84@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Matrix tries to kill XMPP but the reality is that if you want to self-host, XMPP is much less of a hassle. Also, Matrix is an open standard as in “pay big money to participate in the openness”. https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/01/funding-matrix-via-the-matrix-org-foundation/

      Membership comes at various levels, each with different rewards:

      Individual memberships (i.e. today’s Patreon supporters):
          Ability to vote in the appointment of up to 2 ‘community representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
          Name on the Matrix.org website
      Silver member: between £2,000 and £80,000 per year, depending on organisation size
          Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 2 ‘Silver representative’ to the Foundation's governing board
          Supporter logo on the front page of the new Matrix.org website
      Gold member: £200,000 / year, adds:
          Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 3 ‘Gold representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
          Press release announcing the sponsorship
          1 original post on the Matrix.org blog per year
          Participation in the internal Spec Core Team room
          Larger logo on the front page of Matrix.org
      Platinum member: £500,000 / year, adds:
          Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 5 ‘platinum representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
          1 sponsored Matrix Live episode per year
          Largest logo on the front page of Matrix.org
      
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        2 months ago

        and nearly every client has something that’s half baked, and it’s funded by a shady UK nonprofit with links to israeli intelligence, and…

    • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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      2 months ago

      Now when we have Matrix, we also need to deal with rescuing people from a NIH protocol designed around a property nobody needs.