Sending a tinsy-winsy appreciation to how you handle this dialog. Smooth. 🎩

Disabled presence can be an advantage to some privacy-conscious users, so a case for matrix.org can be made for them - especially if they don’t chat much anyway.

Otherwise depend on what is called a “non-puppeting bridge”, self-hosted bot that reposts messages on behalf of itself. Problem is, reactions and other multi-agent interactions won’t be a subject for bridging. If you absolutely need those, you have to host a Matrix server (like optimized, but unstable, Conduit or the hungry Synapse) or partner up with another server owner to activate your appservice…

A lot. Of. Downtimes…

If you want to make a set of private rooms that you want to be available at all times, I certainly don’t recommend matrix.org.

Wait, so, it’s supposed to be time-limited?

TILvids is like your average overprotective uncle…

I observed the same segmentized silos problem a little while ago. Initial reach is SOOOO much harder when federation doesn’t work.

Reach is there only when some popular tech vblogger appears, like The Linux Experiment on TILvids - and that’s it. Most people are there for that channel and that channel only (Nick’s done a good job at promoting it, as we see), which must mean the impression other parts leave on a viewer is considerably worse.

Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter

Not reading what’s next. Probably, some bull.

Yeah, well, it will be unsolved again and again, because that’s the nature of servers - they experience downtime. I’m just looking ahead of myself and how badly this tag will age for some, haha.

It’s never “[Solved]”, LOL.

I don’t use neither of them. What I liked specifically about Matrix is the detailed events system: I’m just not sure that kids might find it useful. 🤭

Sure. Federate with another trusted server, but probably not the general one - you might want to avoid that.

Sure, just find a way to self-host Conduit or Construct for Matrix and don’t federate with outliers - it would work like a charm for internal communication (disclaimer: these light-weight servers are in beta stage, unlike the resource-hungry Synapse). Wait, NextCloud and Revolt have implemented chats, which are encrypted and open source already? As such, I don’t observe any special benefits of Matrix for your use case (unless you’re gonna do bots and stuff). 🤔 You have a lot of choices! 😉