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When everyone called it an IRC/Discord alternative I checked out the Matrix protocol, hoping to write a small implementation to host my own server. It was unnecessarily complex, and in the end I didn't find it valuable enough to continue the project.
Writing an IRC server takes an afternoon. Writing a nostr server/client, including your own implementation of WebSockets takes a weekend. Matrix is a whole other beast of complexity, while lagging more than either of those.
Leo /
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2025-01-19 12:39:43
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2025-01-19 12:39:43Event JSON
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