It’s always interesting how you can just be going on living your life and then someone tells you that there’s this very popular fork of software you use that’s been around long enough for you to wonder how and why it you’re just finding out about it.

Its happened to me a lot.

MultMC is also very good.

I’ve been using it for five minutes and it looks better than all the other ones.

My point is that the protocol doesn’t work well for the use case.

And what do you do about other clients? What happens when the user wants to clear messages on the server when they’re fetched, but doesn’t want to do that for the social network rooms? What about moderation.

XMPP is good at a very specific thing and I don’t think its users would like all the necesary changes.

And?

It works better than anything else.

Matrix is too hefty. XMPP is stateless sort of. ActivityPub just works.

That error happens because the room federation sync takes longer than the join client-server request timeout. Just try again.