Instant messaging is more complicated than you'd think. Sending a message from one device to another seems simple, but it's hard; especially on mobile. NAT, Firewalls, smartphone battery optimisation are all technical challenges, but then you also got user expectations. Users expect to see the same messages in the same order on every device. They want to be able to send photos, files, locations, voice messages and much more. On top of all that, full end to end encryption is a must have nowadays. Especially if you let average people run their own servers.
Matrix seems overly complex, but once you attempt to reinvent it, you end up with the same level of complexity.
Ok without support for searching #matrix chat room history, messages are effectively ephemeral... like connecting to #irc without a bouncer 🤦🏼♂️
This is going to probably make a lot of people angry/restart IRC/matrix flamewars, but I feel like it has to be said if we are going to push #matrix as a more open alternative to the other walled chat gardens (proprietary or otherwise) out there. I, a IRC user for decades, want Matrix to succeed, but the UX needs to suck a lot less than it does today.
and a Telegram Bridge (not tested with private messages)
Since this Matrix instance is selfhosted, the uptime of the instance will not be the BEST and downtimes can happen so use it at your own risk. However, you can see how stable my selfhosted server is here: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/89VnzSKAn/793739181
If this lands on your feed, tell me about different features that are just missing in Matrix.
It can be anything, but please don't include memes like "unable to decrypt message" or other things that are already in the works, or maybe has already been merged (e.g media captions)
Some examples include better forwarded messages, rich profiles, or a live location sharing, just to name a few.
(I am writing something about this, boosts appreciated!)
♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:> #Matrix is great, but using it can be a PITA. CLI clients are not ubiquitous, E2EE is complicated and requires local state, and the python client is extremely slow (like 10 seconds to send a message slow). I’ve often wanted a fast, easy way to post a message into a room in a way that’s simple and secure.Enter #pokem, a simple CLI tool that can also run as a daemon. You create a user for it to run as, configure it to use that user, and invite that user to whatever rooms you want.
Remotely, you can send a POST request and it will put the data into the room. No fuss, no muss.
So I can run curl --fail -d "hello, matrix" 'https://pokem.koehn.com/<room id>' from any script and it will put the message there automagically, even if the room is E2EE.
Feel free to invite @pokem:koehn.com to your matrix room (on any home server) and you can do the same.
Matrix certrainly has its rough edges, but I find it awesome that pretty much every major Linux community now has their dedicated space. All federated, of course.
Est ce que c'est une bonne idée de vouloir faire une messagerie compatible avec #RCS / #SMS / #MMS et #matrix et #XMPP ?
C'est à dire qu'une personne avec un numéro de téléphone pourrait faire une discussion de groupe avec un compte matrix et un compte XMPP et encore une autre qui n'a que les SMS.
I try now #Logseq and this is #OpenSource and I would like to like it but somewhere I can't manage to understand and use it. I don't just want to write down my thoughts and #ideas, I also want to be able to check off a #todo list… 😐
Gnah ... dieses #Matrix, ne? ... Was ist eine sichere Variante, das zu verwenden? Ich muss wohl jetzt für ein Projekt. Gibt's ne Möglichkeit, den eigenen Account zu schützen? Zero-knowledge auf dem Server und Kontaktsperren für alle, außer einer Handvoll explizit erlaubten Accounts, so dass auch Server-Admins nichts von meinen Nachrichten sehen können? Ist blöd, wenn man Matrix-Admins explizit misstraut ...
Camus a raison, le principal truc qui consomme c’est la fédération. Au début, j’avais essayé de fédérer #matrix:matrix.org et mon serveur a rendu l’ame. J’ai du réinstaller.
Matrix est fondamentalement assez lourd mais si tu ne federe pas c’est tranquille. Synapse est lui aussi plutôt lourdeau et conduit se fait attendre, mais je ne m’attend pas a des miracles des performance non plus, le protocole est fait pour faire grand usage de routines de crypto et la crypto ça consomme. Je pense que d’ici la sortie de conduit, le matos disponible pour faire un serveur chez soi sera assez puissant pour que même synapse tourne sans trop de problèmes.
En relación al debate que surge de gente a la que le irrita que se recomiende #Matrix en vez de #XMPP, diría que uséis lo que más os guste para vuestros grupos/comunidades y punto, que cada cual tendréis vuestras razones para preferir una u otra cosa.
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Como añadido, recomendaría #SimpleX muy por encima de los dos, privado y seguro (hasta ahora) el abordaje de usuario es súper amigable
Lo puedo recomendar después de venir usando #Matrix y #XMPP asiduamente, no volvería a usarlos
Bon serveur Matrix alternatif à matrix.org? French
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