• @xarvos
    4•3 years ago

    There are several other concerns than ease of use. For example:

    • Not enough people on there
      • Also, not enough interesting content in case of social network
    • Low disk space
    • Too many accounts already
    • Don’t know which instance or client to choose (though this can be argued as a subreason of ease of use)
    • Helix
      3•3 years ago

      Not enough people on there

      That’s mostly true in a social circle kind of way, but not in general. Millions of people use it. But there are actually dozens of us. Dozens! ;)

      Low disk space

      Please elaborate.

      Too many accounts already

      Not enough or too many?

      Don’t know which instance or client to choose (though this can be argued as a subreason of ease of use)

      Yes, that’s basically part of my point, too :)

        • Helix
          4•3 years ago

          It is the list of excuses that people use to give.

          Most of them are created artificially for anything new.

          Very good point. People like to make excuses because they don’t like change. It’s as simple as that.

      • @xarvos
        2•3 years ago

        Millions of people use it.

        But if they’re not your friends, it doesn’t matter.

        Low disk space

        Please elaborate

        Many people still use low end phones with limited storage and installing an extra app just to talk to you (see point 1) is wasting it.

        Not enough or too many

        I mean the individual has too many accounts (for many services), not the network. Creating yet another account just to talk to you (see point 1) is not worth the struggle.

    • Halce
      3•3 years ago

      Matrix is more a real-time chat solution, not a social network per-se. For social network community building ActivityPub is a much better (and not a competing) use-case.

      • @xarvos
        1•3 years ago

        These reasons apply for both. Social network has an extra point because it’s public.

      • Helix
        1•3 years ago

        Matrix is more a real-time chat solution, not a social network per-se.

        I didn’t say that anywhere, did you reply to the wrong comment?