| 28 Jul 2021 |
 gentritine | The platform doesn't really need to be good | 17:02:29 |
 hypo 🏳️🌈 (unavailable/homeserver undergoing maintenance) | In reply to @genrtyl:matrix.org
Hence why most social media platforms are horrible platforms because right now the platform itself is the main attraction? | 17:03:23 |
| gentritine | Not in general, no. People use Facebook and Twitter because 1. they're the only things they know and 2. because they've got interesting content or people on them | 17:04:12 |
| hypo 🏳️🌈 (unavailable/homeserver undergoing maintenance) | I think Facebook and Twitter are heavily invested in ensuring Facebook and Twitter are the place you go to see content | 17:05:08 |
| gentritine | Well, insofar as anybody uses Facebook anymore | 17:05:09 |
| gentritine | But Facebook-the-company has already acquired more zoomer-friendly platforms 😈 | 17:05:30 |
| hypo 🏳️🌈 (unavailable/homeserver undergoing maintenance) | they do, I get what you mean but Facebook is super popular especially in the developing world iirc | 17:05:49 |
| hypo 🏳️🌈 (unavailable/homeserver undergoing maintenance) | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55929654 | 17:06:34 |
| gentritine | I mean, I think Matrix very clearly has visibility problems. It's doesn't really register as a competitor to Discord. | 17:06:42 |
| hypo 🏳️🌈 (unavailable/homeserver undergoing maintenance) |
It is widely said that, in Myanmar, Facebook is the internet, so when the military asked for it to be blocked for the sake of "stability" it sent a shockwave through the country.
| 17:06:50 |
| gentritine | Really, it should probably just be marketed as "Element" in order to not confuse normies :P | 17:07:26 |
| hypo 🏳️🌈 (unavailable/homeserver undergoing maintenance) | I think "visibility problems" is a different way of framing it but one of the founders agrees with you | 17:08:17 |
| gentritine | As social media it does. I mean, there are also upsides to getting in on something as it's starting. | 17:09:54 |
| gentritine | Even if it never really gets big :P | 17:10:04 |
| gentritine | Discord has threads now | 19:07:00 |
| gentritine | Pretty fun feature | 19:07:06 |
| gentritine | Apparently they did it the same as Slack | 19:07:23 |
 meff | In reply to @hypokeimenon:tchncs.de
is there context for the timing of this post? or is it in relation to https://blog.discord.com/connect-the-conversation-with-threads-on-discord-3f5fa8b0f6b?gi=4881cba11524 No context. I wanted to start a discussion about the new Element blog post, but it was badly done since I was extremely busy over the past few days and couldn't get anything done outside of work and the home | 19:08:54 |
| meff | Also because my phone's alarms all went on silent which has been stressful | 19:09:04 |
 taiga | In reply to @genrtyl:matrix.org
Pretty fun feature unnecessary on discord. would be far more useful on matrix | 19:51:22 |
|  orangebanannax joined the room. | 21:08:54 |
| orangebanannax | Will matrix ever get threads though? Seems like matrix is slow to add features | 21:13:15 |
 tleydxdy | element is pretty quick tbh | 23:08:31 |
| orangebanannax | Can element do that without adding it to the matrix protocol? | 23:10:02 |
| orangebanannax | Sorry, I'm new to both these things | 23:10:17 |
| tleydxdy | some things it can, some thing it cannot | 23:11:23 |
| tleydxdy | I think depending on how they want to do threading it can be completely client side | 23:12:48 |
| tleydxdy | we have reply to already | 23:12:56 |
| tleydxdy | so the client just need to keep track of that | 23:13:05 |
| orangebanannax | Hmm good point, they could just like link a bunch of reply-tos and call that a thread | 23:13:33 |
