you might wanna name it something different than Matrix, a decentralised messaging protocol.
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I know. Around the time I did the first bout of development on it, Matrix decided they were going to become Element which was going to free up the name. They decided to keep both. I'm at a loss for a good name that describes that posts have position. That the posts exist in a matrix makes sense to me. I have plans to run a poll on a name change. I know I could always do something completely random. Like Lemmy. That doesn't tell you what it does at all. But my particular brand of creativity makes me want to name things functionally. And Matrix is just so freaking perfect for what it is. All the other similar options are way too nerdy. Latent, vector. I just need to get down with the truly random.
Ideas would actually be super helpful.
Matrix is the messaging protocol. Element is the chat app built on the Matrix protocol. It was originally named RIOT.IM. They changed the messengers name from Riot to Element, the name Matrix was never going to be changed, mostly because those are separate things. They dropped the name to avoid litigation from Riot Games.
Matrix is a framework that has multiple chat applications, Element was just one of them.
That’s not right Matrix was never going to become Element.
Well I screwed up. The other reason why I didn't worry too much about it is at one stage it was just an internal project name and I just kept working on it, to the point that I think it's worth sharing. Yeah, figuring out the right name for it is a step I should do quickly.
Call it Downie Upers
Ok. That will be a candidate for the name change.
"updoot"
Clear what you're referencing, IMO flows nicely and AFAIK (IANAL) isn't a trademark
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So many of us came here from Reddit because we felt burned by them, and the whole monolithic architecture feels like it risks getting corporatized. I came to a federated place because it seems much less likely to have that happen. Not really interested in that model currently.
Too much far right content. You can't have that stuff on there.
It would be honestly more helpful if you posted a link to this "far right content" as proof of your point.
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Why is it called Matrix when Matrix is already a decentralized chat?
Yet another far right conspiracy dump, just with a more garbage layout and design than anything else.
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I'm always interested in looking into alternative social media networks ... especially decentralized ones that are more open - open to everything (without devolving into extremist communities) and also open source
It would be nice to know what the background on your project is ... is it open source? is it a team of people? is it just you?
What are your metrics and stats? .. How many users are on there so far? .. How do you sign up and are there any restrictions?
Also, how is it moderated? .. or is it moderated?
And if it has no restrictions or moderation ... it's not a big deal when the community is small but over time as the numbers grow, moderation of some sort is necessary or the whole thing will just devolve into a mess.
Also, in this day in age, everyone is a lot more skeptical of one another ... so an important question for me is ... who are you? what is your background? where are you from? .... (and obviously, I don't mean for you to completely dox yourself but just to give a general idea of who you are as a person and a bit of your history)
Wait, what? A user posts a thing to a server, and that thing isn't then duplicated to 50 other servers ... yeah, I don't see how that can work.
(I'm just kidding - your site looks neat.)
Thanks
You know that happens with centralised sites too, right? It's invisible because all the redundant servers are behind the same domain name.
Edit: I think I missed the joke, sorry everyone.
I don't think they were talking about actual physical hardware.
Large centralised systems have international mirrors, you know that right?
And even if they were somehow all in the same building, that wouldn't be a good thing. Redundancy makes a service robust, and copying data isn't exactly difficult.
I'm commenting under the impression that the guy was talking about the fact that the system is not federated, not that he was talking about physical hardware.
For what it's worth, I'm a senior developer who spent 8 years at Amazon partially working on developing and scaling systems that received millions of requests per day.
Yeah, I'm assuming that too. Although on my first reading they appeared to be making fun of the way the fediverse does things, on my second reading I think they might be making fun of how people talk about the fediverse, in which case my response wasn't appropriate. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So this is centralized?
Oh my, jQuery!
Great work, congrats. The UI needs serious work though.
I wouldn't say it needs serious work, I kind of like the homebrewed look of it, but there's a lot of wasted space in the form of padding on mobile. I think the list of posts could just take up the full screen width and it'd be good.
Is it okay to openly say that you've cloned another product, or promote a product as a clone of another? I honestly don't know the legal precedents, and know that there are many sites that have copied elements of other products that they intend to compete with, but reading the post title gave me a sinking feeling of Reddit lawyers perking up.
The site looks nice, and I really hope that I'm just being paranoid about possible legal exposure.
There are three issues:
- Copyright
- Trademarks
- Patents
For copyright, you have to make an exact copy - which OP didn't do. Even then it's not perfect protection, sometimes you're still allowed to make copies (e.g. Google copied Java several years ago, and the court said that was OK).
For trademarks, there has to be confusion over who sells the product. OP isn't trying to impersonate Reddit so they're fine there as well.
With patents... yes, if Reddit owns any patents on their service, then OP has a problem. But I don't think they do. Also patents are relatively short lived. You only get exclusive rights over your invention for a short period of time then everyone else is allowed (indeed encouraged) to copy it.
You have some interesting idea!
What I'd love to see is for it to be ActivityPub enabled, let us browse your thing from here! This would benefit you and us!
Also, you need to change the name, too much things are named matrix, maths, the decentralised platform, the movies and more!
Also, design-wise it really feels like a WIP, which I understand it is!
Thinking about making a Reddit clone myself…
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