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Something open probably won't have the money required to run the service. Discord is losing money and they will probably never make a dime. How could Matrix for example ever compete?



Making a open protocol, they don't need money to run any kind of service, since you can run it by yourself instead.


They could charge to give you an API key that you can use with your 3rd party client




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