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(oh yah, FWIW he's done this to me too; shows up and accuses me of being biased against matrix and not disclosing my affiliation with XMPP stuff… meanwhile he controls a company and gets paid by them, I just chose to work on XMPP open source stuff instead of Matrix stuff and don't get paid for it)

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Not being paid doesn't mean less biased. To the contrary: I expect a high bias since you choose to spend lots of time on it despite not being paid for it

Or I did my research and made an informed decision which to work on. I didn't start working on one then only decide to dislike the other based on sunk cost fallacy. Matrix already existed when I got into doing XMPP stuff, and I looked into both.

It's not about back then, but about when you write comments

So any negative comment is somehow bias and I should be doing Matrix instead? I don't get what you're getting at.

I am still aware of both protocols, I still don't like Matrix and think XMPP is "good enough", or at least the best choice. Having an opinion doesn't make me biased against one or the other.

> I don't get what you're getting at.

Not being paid for the work on something doesn't imply no bias towards it.

> Having an opinion doesn't make me biased against one or the other.

It might: Confirmation bias

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