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Matrix is inherently no worse than an IRC client. It is arguably worse than imageboards because the barrier to entry to start a matrix server is lower than that of an imageboard. Understand linux and web development and how to install outdated applications through custom means because not even lynxchan can get out of using legacy applications to run vs signing up for an account, possibly paying for a server, and punching in a couple console commands for the software to do the rest of the installation for you. The barrier to entry to START an imageboard vs a chat server is why chat servers are inherently more popular and thus "worse than IBs." Identity-related concerns are justifiable if you believe in absolute anonymity since Matrix requires a username/email and thus an identity, but considering there are both IDs and country flags floating around and most anons use consistent guest logins on IRC clients and cytube servers anyways, anons are hypocrites in the first place. I won't try to justify dicksword and its datamining. People are lazy though and Dicksword is a muster point that isn't going anywhere right now.
If the community comes from a mindset and enforces that mindset, the platform they ultimately use doesn't matter. I mean, do you sit around while everything rots and the boat sinks and complain about it the entire way down, or do you try to cut off a couple functional blocks of wood from the structure and tie together a raft to sail to the nearest islands and locate civilization, anon? As an example, I don't like Kiwifarms at all, but it's hard to argue that a community like /cow/ or /tv/ managed to hold onto users as well as they did post-8chan despite being the "purer" alternative. Well, maybe one of the 20 or so lawsuits currently all trying to make it to SCOTUS will get through or that censorship bill to make Musk suck congress' dick for threatening national security by buying the psyop platform will pass, and freezed peaches will be restored to the internet on a technicality, and we can all laugh this off as a big joke in a couple years. In the mean time, I can put my fingers in my ears and scream while hoping for the best under a cult of personality leader who butted his head where it doesn't belong, or I can accept reality and find the best compromise before /k/ gets snuffed.