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Can we please stop submitting click-baity titles?

Changing the title is against the rules, isn't it?

I feel the "clickbait" accusation has a tendency to be overused.

I mean, when I hear "clickbait", I think "the headline makes me think there's something interesting that isn't really backed up by the content". But here? The headline says "Matrix Trashfire", the content delivers exactly that.

"Trashfire" is absolutely clickbait. The article lays out some poor onboarding documentation for a hypothetical 100% naive user. Matrix, Element, etc work and they work pretty well. The onboarding workflow for most Federated services don't suffer fools. There's nothing exceptional here.

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