Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.

Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.

Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.

It’s “le-FAY-ette,” of course!