switching.social
Matrix was never on switching.social's list of Whatsapp alternatives, because I feel it is too complicated.
It is however listed as an alternative to Slack.
I know people will disagree with my decisions, that's why I released the site under a libre CC-By-SA licence so that people can modify and reuse the material on their own sites if they wish.
The foreign language forks have already diverged in their own directions and that's fine:
switching.social
Just to add my own statement too:
I respect Fedilab's work, I have been a fan since it was called Mastalab.
The current disagreement is because we have different opinions over where a particular important balance lies.
The main reason I asked to discuss things in DMs was so that discussions would be honest and respectful without dogpiling or outsiders treating this like some kind of sporting event.
We have enough threats from every direction, I don't want bridges burnt needlessly.
switching.social
Pleroma is aimed at tech fans, switching.social is aimed at non-tech people.
People who know how to self-host probably know how to find alternatives for themselves, and there are lots of techy sites that already cater to them.
switching.social
No, I promote Mastodon as an alternative social network.
I recommend people sign up on existing instances.
switching.social
I just don't think Pleroma is aimed at non-tech people.
For example, the official site for Pleroma talks about protocols, server implementations etc:
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