not sure i understood from the article, is this supposed ot host a server locally on your device rather than use someone elses server? (that would make it function almost like a peer to peer system.)

or is it just a way for them to market their own hosting for matrix servers?

agreed it would be nice if the markdown just generated a standard svg that you could then edit, or even just an html canvas where you can drag them around a bit more and add some color before exporting as an image

That is exactly what this link does, minus the color.

you can do a similar thing with PIC and groff, though thats not always as convenient as having it right inside your markdown document.

you can even define more specific placement if you need to.

i think it needs to try be what xmpp/irc isn't and rather push to compete with discord.

add some more rich media features like screen sharing etc. and make it simple to use for non-techies.

make the gamers adopt it and the rest of the masses will follow, otherwise it will stay in the realm of corporate team chat and weird federated communities.

I would think features like screen sharing are better off using a message passing protocol like XMPP instead of a state synchronization protocol like Matrix.

i did not know micro blogs that had actual information in them existed. i thought microblogs are like tweet style.