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Yes, necessarily.

Importantly, your Mastodon or GoToSocial instance isn’t handing your private posts to any random server, just because it asks. The problem only becomes apparent when you have at least one legit accepted follower from a Pixelfed server

The private account would still need to accept a follower from that rogue instance.

You might have a very different definition of “average Discord user” than the average Discord user.

Matrix is a decentralized platform with the same level of security/encryption as Signal. Being decentralized you can run your own server, and chat with others on other servers.

It supports groups, voice, streams etc - similar to Discord/Slack/Teams etc.

Open source. Multiple different server and client implementations. Mobile platforms, “all” operating systems, and with bridges so you can have your IRC, Telegram, Slack, FB Messenger etc channels go to your Matrix account/server.

Are you using the dockerized version? If so it sets up (a) database etc.

https://hub.docker.com/r/matrixdotorg/synapse

How large is large? A few hundreds? Not seeing any performance issues.

Telegram is not a secure messenger.

Yes to multiple platforms, groups etc.

Well if you have a VPS then installing the dockerized Synapse just takes a few minutes.

Might be that I simply don’t believe you as well. I also know a few people running Matrix servers besides myself (Synapse as well as Conduit) and ever since Sliding Sync and clients that support it (Element X, not Element etc) this issue simply doesn’t exist.

I mean, there are quite a few such providers: https://etke.cc/

I run a Matrix family instance. My elderly parents use it as their main way of communicating with us.

Sure, I set up their accounts - but all that difficult to use UX seems to have passed them by completely since they’re very happy with it.

I’m guessing your issue is in your installation.

I can’t speak to your server but I don’t have that issue. It was solved with Sliding Sync quite some time ago.

https://matrix.org/docs/communities/moderation/

Your view of Matrix seems a bit weird. AFAIK I can do all the voice/streaming/community in Matrix as well as it’s done in Discord.

Also, no, my server isn’t slow. matrix.org might be, I don’t know.

Isn’t that a client side issue though? Element is just one Matrix client. I haven’t used it myself but heard from others that Fluffychat (another Matrix client) is more like Discord.

FWIW it’s very common now to see at least open source projects run their own Matrix channels instead of Discord/IRC/xxx.

(I see in other comments that there’s some confusion regarding Element and Matrix. Element is a client, Matrix is the protocol. Yes, Element-the-company does their best to add to this confusion)

~19000 servers according to this graph: https://fediverse.observer/stats

But I’m not sure they detect all.