I'm sorry, would you rather I had framed this post as an aggressive critique of the Zulip developers without addressing my own context? I think anyone who has seriously tried to use Matrix as a chat app rather than a chat app but also an expression of one's principled preferences for federation, decentralization, and e2ee everywhere will know exactly what I'm talking about.

I don't mean to shit on Matrix either. It's a hard set of problems they set out to solve, and Matrix is usable and legitimately self-hostable.