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Everything there (aside from perhaps not printing the full URL under the QR code) is deliberate and a part of the 'brand'. Roboto + Sour Gummy for the fonts, asymmetry, whimsy. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can use Element's Synapse and you'll be able to talk to people using Continuwuity just fine. That's kind of the point.

use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others

It's purely a backend, what's under the hood is not really visible to matrix clients.

Edit: Though I wish this graphic communicated that more, just realized it doesn't even say anything about [matrix].

the only valid complain is "no human readable data next to the QR code"

stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?

UwU. The cuteness is a huge plus IMO.

The project is the "official community continuation of the conduwuit homeserver". Conduwuit was a popular matrix backend until the project was archived.

Although interestingly, conduwuit says the official continuation is Tuwunel. interesting

Agreed that QR codes should be accompanied by text links for accessibility, because many times the scanning fails due to bad light, old camera or shaky hands.

I was very excited when I started seeing QR codes gaining popularity. That excitement was quickly shattered when everyone just started using them improperly and they just made everything more annoying 😮‍💨

I hate you

Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience reddit vs lemmy. People are much more supportive here.

Reddit is especially a shithole for that exact use case (sharing tech projects), because (I suspect) pecking order games and performing for imaginary audiences. Between that and the slop...yeah, nah. Fuck Reddit.

YMMV

It's a spiritual successor to conduwuit, the name checks out imo.

Feel free to use Synapse, og conduit or whatever floats your boat.

I love it

Your users won't ever see the name.

Myeah but it’s just a server - the clients just use Matrix.

Well if that is your only negative point, it must be pretty good.

When they have good names they get stolen.

Try took up about gemini protocol.

Well, it startend with conduit. That was a respectable name. The development slowed down and someone wasnt happy abput not getting pr merged. Then it got forked to conduwuit.

Speed picked back up. There was later a massive meltdown for some reason. To successors emerged continuwuity and tuwunel.

Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it's not a corporate project. You're hearing about it, because it's actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.

At first I uwunderstood your comment as a joke, but apparently Tuwunel does in fact exist and it's a continuation of Conduwuit.

Then call it Matrix. They don't need to know and probably don't care about the specific server software you're using.

It's not really designed to be a Discord replacement. It's a messaging app/protocol that can do voice/video calls. Discord is a passive state voice / video / text channel app that was designed to create spaces for different topics. Matrix has added a similar hierarchical feature as an option, but its not the same and I don't think it was meant to be.