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> Have you guys considered changing the licensing to require larger organizations to contribute financially to the protocol?
Yes, but the concern is that this would chill Matrix network growth - e.g. larger orgs currently building on Matrix would feel victim of a rug-pull or a bait & switch. Whereas Matrix's success depends on it spreading as far and wide as possible... while somehow preventing a tragedy of the commons. We haven't ruled this out, though, if other attempts at funding fail.
> There's an idea out in the ether of solving spam by allowing users to set a bounty to send them a message, which is returned to the sender if the user accepts the message as non-spam.
This is an interesting one. We've always aimed to avoid Matrix being pay-to-play (e.g. eschewing tokenisation schemes). Instead, the angle we've taken has been to let users publish and subscribe to reputation feeds (a bit like email DNSBLs, but more transparent and less of a shakedown) in order to empower users to block stuff they don't want to see. But perhaps one could combine the two ideas: you could have a personal rep list which users pay to be on, and you get the payment if they turn out to be spammers - similar to systems like https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20181023-people-pay-20-.... Much like email, i'm not sure these semantics should be baked into the protocol itself. (But the infrastructure to support it could be - thus MSC2313: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/msc...)
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Is there going to be more muscle put into polishing up the various bridges? Matrix has an amazing opportunity to be the glue protocol between various communication silos, but there's a few things I've encountered that have been preventing me from using it further.
One issue I hit is this:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack/issues...
I tried pinging the people that were committing to the repo on the matrix channel for that bridge, but never got a response and now I'm just stuck with a room with a dead bridge. It's not a huge deal since the Matrix side of things still works, but having some way to reach out for stuff like that would be really helpful.
The other thing is this issue:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord/issu...
It's not a showstopper since the bridge still works, but it's a lot of management to sync all of the rooms initially, and keep them in sync with any changes. I'm going to wait before that's implemented before suggesting that we try bridging Discord and Matrix for my friend group that's stuck on Discord.
Hopefully this doesn't come across as negative, I still use and love Matrix myself. All I want for Christmas though is to have one communication app in my life that talks to everyone everywhere effortlessly :)
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Is there going to be more muscle put into polishing up the various bridges? Matrix has an amazing opportunity to be the glue protocol between various communication silos, but there's a few things I've encountered that have been preventing me from using it further.
One issue I hit is this:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack/issues...
I tried pinging the people that were committing to the repo on the matrix channel for that bridge, but never got a response and now I'm just stuck with a room with a dead bridge. It's not a huge deal since the Matrix side of things still works, but having some way to reach out for stuff like that would be really helpful.
The other thing is this issue:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord/issu...
It's not a showstopper since the bridge still works, but it's a lot of management to sync all of the rooms initially, and keep them in sync with any changes. I'm going to wait before that's implemented before suggesting that we try bridging Discord and Matrix for my friend group that's stuck on Discord.
Hopefully this doesn't come across as negative, I still use and love Matrix myself. All I want for Christmas though is to have one communication app in my life that talks to everyone everywhere effortlessly :)
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Nheko has been around for a number of years. Never used it myself though.
https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
