Sweet! Swedish Social Insurance Agency1 (Försäkringskassan) have ditched Microsoft Teams and are now using Nextcloud for documents, Element for chat, and Jitsi for video calls. These services are also installed on their own servers.
I just reinstalled @element on Android and set up a new @matrix account on it. The handy UI that divided rooms and people (DMs) into separate tabs is gone, replaced by a one column UI with a confusing mixture of rooms and people. I've been through all the settings, multiple times, and I can't figure out how to get my familiar UI back.
@Vivaldi since you all jumped on the #fediverse with #mastodon have you all considered a room on #matrix or hosting your own matrix instance and bridges to you Telegram group?
Only in one night. I guess this infrastructure is broken beyond repair.
Yes, I can close incoming unauthorized messages but it happens too often people are trying to contact me. I lack the understanding why people have to destroy everything for financial gain.
😂🤣😂 Someone on #Matrix accused me of working for #Instagram, & I responded as if they personally insulted me (my reaction surprised me).
Even though I am still on Instagram as a user, I could never see myself working for Zuck, as Facebook’s algorithm has really zucked up (pun intended) social networking & society as whole (especially politics) on an international scale.
I will try to introduce them to #Pixelfed this weekend.
HELP!
Our Matrix server and/or Element client just doesn't seem to invite people to rooms, properly. Is there anyone out there with a LOT of matrix experience who can help us figure this out? It's been a problem for months, and delays a really interesting project;
Fediverse looked silly while spewing misinformed slander against #Matrix and #Element. Of course they are and should sell instance hosting to government entities. I think that is a good thing. Helps them, protects information, funds development.
If that is a no go, what should govt do: use M$ Teams, risking sensitive information in proprietary systems?
Twitter’s encrypted DM feature is technically flawed, opt-in, limited to 1-to-1 text-based messages, restricted to a small user base, and generally inferior in just about every way to encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp.
Apparently there's some hostility coming from the ActivityPub side of things about BlueSky? If true (I haven't seen it yet), that would be very disheartening to hear. This should be a collaboration and an acceptance to federation, not a competition.
A really good read from the Matrix dev about how AT and Matrix have similarities.
Big controversy on mastodon over #matrix#element selling to police. I’m of two minds. It sucks but it’s normal. The whole internet was made for surveillance. I’m not surprised at all. Read Surveillance Valley: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34220713
@aral
I understand your bad gut feeling about that. However, if they try introducing backdoors, I'll trust my beloved open source community to quickly figure that out.
Also, funding open source projects is sth I'd like to see our authorities doing much more than pouring shitloads of tax money into corps like Microsoft.
Also encrypted messaging provider: "We host our platform on the computers of an exploitative billionaire that also host the CIA's cloud. We promised 7y ago you'll be able to use our service without a phone#, you got cyber-ponzi-currency scheme instead. We will never federate and if we don't like you we renounce to software freedom".