tfm

But many people don't want to have everything completely public, even if privacy is a illusion there.

We have to accept that and provide a solution for both.

As a result, I am just asking follow-on questions to further discern what makes Element preferable.

If you are against a change in the first place you won't switch, anyway.

There are people who love them, but when people ask about them, they don't offer any really informative data to support why they like them.

Please, ask.

What makes Element (matrix) a secure platform, and how does that differ from telegram or signal or whatever. Like. What is matrix good at? That's what I'm asking. Why suggest it over something else?

Simple. It's fully free and open source. The server as well as the apps. Therefore, you can trust it as a privacy friendly solution a heck of a lot more, than any other solution like WhatsApp.

Signal is secure as well, but the server is centralized.

And Telegram is not considered secure because of their implementation and shady practices.

I haven't had that many problems with bots on Reddit.

Isn't there anything in friendica or diaspora like that?

Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open

It's fully open source.

let alone federated.

It's still experimental but they are working on it.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

That's a good argument. But shouldn't we then promote FOSS solutions like Perplexica?

What can we do to get more people to switch over to Lemmy from Reddit?

Isn't there any solution for that yet?

And what can we do about it now? I mean we have the Fediverse. It's 20 million users are not the most but it's not nothing. We can build on that.

It's a secure messenger

What hosting do you use? You can easily host it using docker.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

I've never had any problems with low speed. Maybe it's hosting provider?