Yes, same here I way prefer email (even though messaging can have its uses of course).

It's nice to see there are turn key solutions for hosting your own XMPP server nowadays. And the community behind this one even improve on the mobile applications.

Feels surprisingly accessible. Makes me want to play with meshstatic now.

I felt that a bit the past couple of years when looking how the ecosystem evolved. The situation seems concerning to me.

If you're wondering where your battery power goes... this is a nice list of measures for various clients on Android. It looks like XMPP is still hard to beat.

Yes, we definitely shouldn't use chats as the phone. I often fails at this, it's also a good reminder for me.

Lots of progress, they're finally delivering on past announcements at FOSDEM it seems. Let's hope the spec effort catches up though.

Clearly a list of concerns to keep an eye on for wider Matrix adoption. Clearly some basics are not covered still.

Interesting evolution... looks like people will all go back to some chat system? It'll be the 90's all over again? Maybe IRC will make a comeback? :-)

There's a new player in the message queue space. This one looks interesting.

They were probably using RabbitMQ for the wrong scenario in the first place. That said it's a good reminder that sometimes a simpler architecture is what you want and it can bring benefits.

Nice recipe on what can be used to run a virtual conference using only Free Software.