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What am I missing with Matrix?
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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Man I wish I had friends to talk to using xmpp or even matrix. Where I live people have hard time using telegram over whatsapp..I hate that I'm forced to use it to talk to people.
I just at some point got tired of it and kinda just told everyone "I have an XMPP account, a signal account, a phone number, and an email address. You can use any of those to get in contact with me." and they all picked one. Nobody picked email though xD
I struggle with that..I'm not very popular and I'm afraid nobody will ever talk to me if I ask them to just use a different app. I'm in one group chat from my old army buddies and we barely chat..
That's part of why I still gave phone numbers and emails, despite both not being secure in any capacity; most people do have them, even if they're not their preferred methods of communication.
I did lose a couple of people, but they were the ones I caught up with like... Once a year, anyway. Not that I didn't value them as friends, but there comes a point where it's like... I'm not missing a whole lot without you here, y'know. And it's not like I had that many friends, either, I only have a handful of people I talk to regularly. Maybe 15-20 a month if we're including friends of people I know who I see in passing?
i get the impression that we all are. lol