Not really, to my understanding. Hexbear runs everything off chapo.chat which is mostly unaffected by the matrix.org issue. Obviously, don’t use Element and there might be a hard fork in the future but it shouldn’t be insurmountable. Matrix still remains a decent protocol despite having an uncertain future and the replacements aren’t very promising. (I know polyproto was mentioned but I’ve seen dozens of Discord-esque chat protocols come and go, and it being a de facto personal project doesn’t help.) Defederation with matrix.org might happen as well.
How does this effect the hexbear matrix channels?
Not really, to my understanding. Hexbear runs everything off chapo.chat which is mostly unaffected by the matrix.org issue. Obviously, don’t use Element and there might be a hard fork in the future but it shouldn’t be insurmountable. Matrix still remains a decent protocol despite having an uncertain future and the replacements aren’t very promising. (I know polyproto was mentioned but I’ve seen dozens of Discord-esque chat protocols come and go, and it being a de facto personal project doesn’t help.) Defederation with matrix.org might happen as well.