@mjj @killyourfm I have a similar approach where I'm almost everywhere my people are (unfortunately including #WhatsApp), but for the ones like us, it means carrying a sizable baggage for something that most people: (a) get done with only one platform which is often WhatsApp, and (b) do not even have to think/worry about.

@killyourfm And the people who advocate for them use it all wrong! I believe in using the right tool for the job, and man have I seen people use it stuff.

@killyourfm And again, the scale of the "micro" communities I've built isn't even remotely comparable to yours.

@killyourfm And because I am usually that one person who is often heard talking about "the next perfect" platform for the group, people tend to start ignoring me after a couple of "painful" switches, eventually going back to their #WhatsApp groups.

@kaosk @killyourfm I do not know, but it somehow reminds me of #Keybase, which had one of my close circles convinced and we had to deal with difficult-to-use clients that were an overkill for merely sharing text messages, a few pictures here and there.

@killyourfm Across all use-cases like being able to communicate 1-on-1, broadcast messages to your group, being able to share thoughts with the "web", and more, what often ends up happening, at least for me, is that I keep an account at all of these places, because you can't convince people to switch over, and you have to be where your audience is.

@killyourfm This is one of my favorite topics for research, and I've been on-and-off spending a lot of time on it lately. #Matrix is my favorite with its third-party clients but is much different an animal.