Anti-Corporate Movement
This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
- Meta's entry into the fediverse
- Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
- Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
- IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
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I'm all for jumping ship and going elsewhere but Matrix isn't ready as far as the user experience is concerned. It has a serious issue with simultaneously having too many and not enough cooks in the kitchen. There are too many apps and none of them work perfectly or near-perfectly. All of the apps for it that I've tried have breaking issues in one way or another.
Desktop:
Mobile
A lot of thise bugs were rage-inducing (especially when writing long messages and crashing out) and as an end-user I'm tired of half functional software. As a developer, I'm tired of feeling like I have to make patches on someone else's project just to have basic functionality.
I deleted my account over the weekend and will likely return once that is sorted. If efforts went into improving the flagship app and standardising the protocol instead of having a bunch of half-baked alternatives with varying implementations, it would be a much more pleasant experience and easily supplant Discord.
The issues you are describing are definitely not fun but your experience is far different from a lot of others experiences and its not representative either.
Matrix works „perfectly“ for my usecase and like 50 people I chat with regularly. Its the only service I use and I have bridged all old messaging apps so I dont have to use more than one app.
As always, its luck, usecase, skill and platform that makes or breaks the experience. I wrote perfectly in quotes because asking for perfection in mostly unpaid open source development is looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Either start helping by providing fixes, donate or show some patience because what you‘re getting is a lot more than you paid for.
As always, this is just my opinion, not proven fact.
You're right in that my experience is not representative. What made me go ahead with account deletion was the fact that 2 out of the 6 people in the channel I was in deleted their accounts last week over the same issue - "too many bugs". One of them is the sole reason that Nheko has support for deleting entire sticker packs instead of one-by-one. In the end, the bugs got to them also. As a result of that, my brain (whether I want it to or not) quantifies this as '50% functional' since 3/6 (including myself) of the people that I chat with on Matrix bowed out due to the exact same issues.
A few days before those people deleted their accounts, I complained about some bugs and mentioned that if it weren't for that channel I would delete my account, so that group is on Signal now. I couldn't get anyone on Discord to leave for any reason, and the one channel has been together for over 20 years and has been all over the place - we started on IRC in '03.
For what its worth, I understand this well - to clarify my usage of "perfectly", I only have two hard requirements on a messaging app:
In my opinion, this is bare minimum functionality. (Somewhat related): I think I've earned the right to say that because I wrote a short-lived competitor to Trillian back when Pidgin was known as Gaim and sending plaintext messages across protocols was one of the first things implemented.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to learn yet another codebase, framework, or protocol in order to provide fixes. As I said in my comment:
For donating, the Matrix foundation's accountants are dodgy when it comes to their financials so I'm wary of donating. A quick glance at their projected 2024 financials on the blog post reads like they are paying 4 developers £137,500 a year. That seems a bit high for the UK, and especially if Element is the primary maintainer of the server software which is no longer under the stewardship of the Matrix foundation. To an outsider, there's a lot of alarm bells ringing in the financials department.
Patience is all thats left, so waiting for Matrix to be up to par with other software is the plan and I'll make a new account then.
This whole post reads like I'm putting down the project. I'm honestly not, and only want to highlight the issues with the project as a whole thats (in my opinion of course) slowing down mass-adoption. Getting open source software out to the masses is not an easy undertaking, and that takes time - more than the 9 years they've already had. The varying degrees of implementation and inconsistent user experience from all directions is slowing down that progress.