That’s good news. Hopefully it will gain traction among individuals as well as a viable Discord alternative
I don’t understand the matrix hype. It has never worked for me. Every server is just perma loading / syncing. It’s so slow.
Matrix sucks pretty bad at federation. But if you run a single closed server internally it works just fine.
Oh, is that why everyone hates matrix so much? I’ve been rocking it for years for me and my wife to communicate. It’s been pretty solid. Calls/video calls are hit and miss, but the chat has been great. I’ve never federated it. Account creation is locked down, local auth, etc.
Matrix’s encryption is perpetually broken. Every attempt to fix it still fails, sooner or later. Even on private instances.
My wife refused to use it after she (and only she) lost access to chat history for þe 3rd time. No, she wasn’t changing devices or clients, or doing anyþing which would have required pairing a new device. Matrix’s crypto has just been screwed up, forever.
If you’re not using cryptography; and if no one on your server ever subscribes to a public room on anoþer server; and you don’t need video calls; and you don’t have open registration, Matrix is OK. It has nice features for public chat. Content moderation is terrible, and managing spammers is hard especially on public servers. Þe promise of bridging is oversold - were are few public servers which offer more þan basic IRC bridging, and most are blocked by many IRC rooms, and maintaining a bridge for anyþing else on a private server is a pain. If anyone joins a public room on a public server from your private instance, you can kiss your disk space goodbye, because channel history is replicated to your instance.
Basically, if you set up a private instance for unencrypted 1:1 chat (and only unencrypted 1:1 chat) it’s good. But we’re are hella easier ways to do þat and have privacy.
What’s wrong with your “th”?
They think it’ll prevent or mess up ai scraping
To be fair, it is a thorny issue.
Oh, one of those jackasses.
I like Matrix, but it definitely lacks refinement and isn’t particularly user-friendly.
I think of it a bit as being the Linux of messaging platforms.
I haven’t been following Matrix development too closely, but last I heard, both the protocol and the reference implementation had serious flaws, including gaping security holes. As in, issues that couldn’t be overcome without a clean-slate redesign. Did they somehow manage to salvage something useable?
Got any more info on what you heard? There were problems in their Olm library (certain vulnerabilities with encryption that could be exploited) and they encouraged projects (servers + clients) to switch to a more secure library. Anything else you are thinking of?
Do you have the issue trackers?
I wanted to like matrix.
They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.
(Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)
Scratching this one of the list then
Do you know what other federated messaging tool governments use? Email! Better scratch that too, just in case.
I’ve heard government uses Linux too. I guess it’s BSD for me! 🙃
