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1 year agoMatrix tries to kill XMPP but the reality is that if you want to self-host, XMPP is much less of a hassle. Also, Matrix is an open standard as in “pay big money to participate in the openness”. https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/01/funding-matrix-via-the-matrix-org-foundation/
Membership comes at various levels, each with different rewards:
Individual memberships (i.e. today’s Patreon supporters):
Ability to vote in the appointment of up to 2 ‘community representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
Name on the Matrix.org website
Silver member: between £2,000 and £80,000 per year, depending on organisation size
Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 2 ‘Silver representative’ to the Foundation's governing board
Supporter logo on the front page of the new Matrix.org website
Gold member: £200,000 / year, adds:
Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 3 ‘Gold representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
Press release announcing the sponsorship
1 original post on the Matrix.org blog per year
Participation in the internal Spec Core Team room
Larger logo on the front page of Matrix.org
Platinum member: £500,000 / year, adds:
Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 5 ‘platinum representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
1 sponsored Matrix Live episode per year
Largest logo on the front page of Matrix.org
I love Debian stable and use it on most my computers, servers included. I love that it is boring, that potentially breaking updates occur only every release and I usually wait a bit before I apply them. For the rare software where I want (rarely need) a more recent version, there are backports, flatpaks, or sometimes 3rd party repos, or even build-yourself-from-the-README if I’m really in the mood.