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I might not use matrix.org, but when 90% of my friends do (and currently that's closer to 100%), that doesn't do much for me...

(But also: I don't have the resources to run a separate instance for myself, let alone for my friends.)

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Perfectly understandable. If matrix took off a little more, we might see an increase in resources for the official homeserver, or see more peered homeservers becoming popular (as people today get a gmail account and expect to work with users on offic360 without questioning).

Meanwhile you also have the option to get a client with multi-account support. Again, not all clients have this, but this is again something that no other messenger does, or will ever allow purely for market reasons.

If running your own homeserver weren't so painful for some folks this might be a bit more addressable, but currently if you're in a few popular rooms it's going to make a monster of your digitalocean bill, and sucks to maintain.

Hint: the correct answer to this is not "Well there's your problem you're expecting to run it on Digital oc-" no, this attitude helps nobody. Like Picard said, make it so.

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