@freemo Why not? Matrix has a concept of room that has moderators, which then contains all the messages including replies-to-replies, so the semantics of moderation match what IMO people expect.

People find it weird, but I don't think it's correct to think of Matrix as a chat protocol. Jabber is a protocol for sending messages, while Matrix is a protocol for synchronizing contents of message lists. If you look at it from this angle, it makes way more sense that Matrix is suited to various "less online"[*] usecases.

[*] Matrix still has some weird failure modes when _homeservers_ are not online enough, but they are being worked on as part of the p2p Matrix version (https://arewep2pyet.com/ mentions them).