Tech platforms will need to deactivate accounts for users under 16 and stop teens from making accounts until they are that age, or face fines of up to $50m
I also mostly use Facebook Messenger. In theory at least Messenger should be unaffected by this, since it’s a chat app, not “social media”. How that will play out in practice, with most Messenger accounts being tied to a Facebook account, is…unclear.
My other big chat app currently is Discord. I’ve recently started trying to convert one of my Discord groups onto Matrix. Matrix seems pretty good for this kind of thing. It can do one-on-one chats, group chats, and Discord-like “Spaces” with multiple different Rooms. For those less tech-inclined, just don’t explain any of the federation details, just go to matrix.org.
Cheers, I was thinking a Discord style platform would work well but don’t want to swap one closed system for another. Matrix looks good - with different rooms in spaces, public or invite only access, email only sign up.
One issue with signal is also that everybody uses secretive usernames - not great for friendly neighbourhood community chats. But it looks like some Matrix clients have multi-account support, so that could fix that.
Do you know if theres any sort of cap on user numbers? I’m envisioning around 50-150 users for events/requests/etc.
The group I’m looking to migrate is much, much smaller than that, so it’s not something I’ve considered. But a quick search tells me that it should be fine with those numbers.
I also mostly use Facebook Messenger. In theory at least Messenger should be unaffected by this, since it’s a chat app, not “social media”. How that will play out in practice, with most Messenger accounts being tied to a Facebook account, is…unclear.
My other big chat app currently is Discord. I’ve recently started trying to convert one of my Discord groups onto Matrix. Matrix seems pretty good for this kind of thing. It can do one-on-one chats, group chats, and Discord-like “Spaces” with multiple different Rooms. For those less tech-inclined, just don’t explain any of the federation details, just go to matrix.org.
Cheers, I was thinking a Discord style platform would work well but don’t want to swap one closed system for another. Matrix looks good - with different rooms in spaces, public or invite only access, email only sign up. One issue with signal is also that everybody uses secretive usernames - not great for friendly neighbourhood community chats. But it looks like some Matrix clients have multi-account support, so that could fix that. Do you know if theres any sort of cap on user numbers? I’m envisioning around 50-150 users for events/requests/etc.
The group I’m looking to migrate is much, much smaller than that, so it’s not something I’ve considered. But a quick search tells me that it should be fine with those numbers.