Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix open standard, told us: “This has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol; it’s just an unfortunate naming coincidence.”

I mean, the journalism is fucking amateur at best. “Red pill” isn’t a verb that’s immediately understandable, and yes, I know they say in journalism school to use plenty of similies instead of repeating yourself, but loads of English speakers wouldn’t have a clue what they mean by “Plod”

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I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it’s an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.

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Yes, instead use rozzers, bacon or filth!

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LOL, you completely lost me at “rozzers”!

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