> I feel like someone stopping maintenance of a private server is way more likely than the most popular chat client at the time shutting down eventually.
I have been hosting my own Matrix homeserver and my 4+ years of service life seems to be longer than 80% of Google services... :)
(Admittedly I am just joking with this apples-to-oranges comparison, but sometimes it sure does feel like major corporations are trending towards shorter and shorter service lifetimes for their offerings... and this is coming from someone who rode the Google+ train all the way to the last station!)
I have been hosting my own Matrix homeserver and my 4+ years of service life seems to be longer than 80% of Google services... :)
(Admittedly I am just joking with this apples-to-oranges comparison, but sometimes it sure does feel like major corporations are trending towards shorter and shorter service lifetimes for their offerings... and this is coming from someone who rode the Google+ train all the way to the last station!)