Looking for something more integrated with things like Mastodon or Lemmy or Pixelfed, it's too hard of a sell for people to download another messager otherwise.
Also, Matrix is really complicated... I still don't quite have it working right.
I think it just comes in waves, it got bad when when the reddit API finally shuts down, then it slowly calmed down, now in the last week or so it's starting again.
If they actually cared about the economy, then give the actors and writers what they want and the strike ends, and we can all get a move-on with things.
That's the point of the strike, and the solution is right there in front of the studios.
Just goes to show you Hollywood was always a messed up place. It was indifferent to people back then, it is indifferent to people now.
On a slightly related topic, "Babylon" was too much the same self loathing and despair from Hollywood; it ultimately bombed, despite being a technically great movie, because everyone is sick and tired of seeing Hollywood bemoaning that this messed up world is never going to change.
I hope they will be proven wrong after the strike.
It's easier to monitor for suspicious bit signup activities when you funnel them into a small time window with full attention during that time frame, instead of having to watch for them 24/7.
I don't think it does, since self hosters can just federated with any number of instances they would like to interact with and not worry about the rest.
And I appreciate you, speaker_hat!