Throughout my time using Lemmy, I have learned about the populations of a bunch of different instances and have made accounts on several different ones based on what I find. However, I’m about to make a Matrix account and this is a whole new ball game. Which server should I choose/avoid making my account on? Does it really matter as much as it does on Lemmy?
So for Ubuntu, it’s popular enough to have communities on irc, discord, matrix, etc.
I wanted to be in a Linux community in 2006 and discovered irc, and even then it was retro.
As the years have gone by I’ve tried the other sites, but imo text only has a vibe that you only get through that limitation. I get that images are a popular feature, but I prefer irc.
Matrix lost me with how awful the key crap was and element is really unpleasant to use.