Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! @lina@vt.social

2/12/2026, 12:53:46 AM

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Posted my thoughts on Matrix over on Bluesky in a thread:

https://bsky.app/profile/lina.yt/post/3memjfjwzzs26
https://bsky.app/profile/lina.yt/post/3memmudkm3k26

TL;DR no, it's not going to replace Discord. Matrix is too full of jank due to early poor design decisions to be widely usable by non-technical people.

The Fediverse and Bluesky are different takes on federated Twitter with different pros/cons, and federated Twitter is a much harder problem (because it's "global"), but Matrix is basically just all cons. It's a failed experiment, and you can simply do much better starting over rather than trying to fix it. Just because it's relatively widely used in FOSS spaces doesn't mean it's the way to go. Sunk cost fallacy etc.

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! (@lina.yt)

Matrix is kind of... a trainwreck of bad decisions. Encryption (for groups/channels especially) has seriously held it back because it's really hard to get right without UX jank. Then there's a whole governance mess with Element. It works these days but I doubt it'll ever catch up...

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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