I tried it again and the difference was astounding! Instead of waiting multiple minutes to send one message, I only had to wait a whole minute!

I like the idea of a federated chat platform, but I’ll have to stick to discord for now, it would seem.

I think it was about a year or two ago.

I had a terrible, completely unusable experience with Matrix before I found out what it was made with. It took several minutes to load, 5-10 minutes to join a room, and about a couple minutes per message (which would just not send half the time). It was slower than email.

The problem with Matrix is that it sucks. It’s so comically laggy that you’d be able to have a conversation more efficiently in a Lemmy comments section than in a Matrix room. Consequences of trying to make a scalable backend for a real-time app in fucking Python, I suppose.

I use the browser version. Works for me.