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Discord vs Matrix - What’s Your Preference?
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I heard someone say that the messages on Matrix are basically replicated on every server that is federated with another. I don't know if this is true, but that's a crazy amount of network traffic if so. I've also heard anecdotally that the protocol itself is pretty complicated.
Just like… everything that's federated? XMPP, Mastodon, Lemmy ?
As soon as you're in the room (messaging) or following someone or something (social networking), you want to store all their content, so that you have it even if their server is down.