🇬🇧 I see #Matrix is the next topic I need to explore as it looks like a very interesting tool! I think I was convinced by having Signal, Messenger and others in one app!
🇵🇱 Widzę, że #Matrix to następny temat, który muszę zgłębić, bo wygląda to na bardzo ciekawe narzędzie! Przekonało mnie chyba posiadanie Signala, Messengera i innych w jednej aplikacji!
#Telegram was blocked in my country (#Brazil) yesterday on all ISPs, and soon they will be removed from App Store and Play Store ... that's why decentralized communication apps are so important, apps like #Session and #Matrix are trending here right now.
Just learned about @simplex and I must say it looks fairly promising as a future #InstantMessaging app to replace #Signal in the long run (I do like #Matrix but it's good to see an alternative and their tech looks solid).
I was not 100% sure about #SimpleX ToS, though, and couldn't find out who the company was, nor their business model (though donation is at least a part of it).
I know this'll be shitty to complain about but seriously.. Why do people still make #Discord servers when they can use other open solutions like #Matrix or #Revolt? :blobcatglare:
We are supporting yet another big greedy #corporation collecting #data on us, we should be promoting open protocols or services that don't do such a thing
@gutocarvalho Uso e gosto do #matrix e entendo a importância da federação, mas em usabilidade não chega perto do Signal. Para todas as pessoas não técnicas procuro recomendar o Signal a outras ferramentas mais fechadas. Talvez vc conheça essa discussão: https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/
There's one main thing I like about #BlueSky, #Nostr, #Cwtch, and the in-development P2P-ified #Matrix over #ActivityPub and Matrix as they're generally deployed now: your ID doesn't depend on DNS.
I've not been in the Fediverse very long, but I've already seen people lose their entire social graph because an admin unilaterally took down an instance. When you tie your identity to DNS, you're at the mercy of the domain owner and every point of control over the DNS as a whole, including the court systems in every authoritarian jurisdiction. Not your keys, not your identity.
I like the admins of my instance here, but I see the toll it takes on them running it even with the community's contributions. It's a lot of pressure and a lot of power to have that much control over identity and trust for your users.
I don't think we have to wholesale move to other protocols, though. The beauty of open networks is the freedom to build bridges. When people do migrate between them, it can and should be as smooth as migrating between ActivityPub instances in the happy path, and remain fully interoperable.
Yo no he podido entender la teoría de la #Matrix que defiende #Musk. Si la realidad es solo un niño jugando #SimEarth ¿Para qué llegar a otros planetas si eso es verdad? De seguro ese es de los objetivos de la simulación y apenas se cumpla se acabará, como en ese juego o en #Civilization.
En cambio, lo largoplacistamente responsable sería mantener la vida en la tierra lo máximo posible (al menos hasta saber si se puede trascender la simulación). https://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-elon-musk-esta-convencido-vivimos-matrix-201809110239_noticia.html
Hmm, moim zdaniem to nie jest dobry pomysł, to przyciąganie na siłę wszystkich nowych osób zakładających profil przez apkę #Android na instancję mastodon.social
Ciężko teraz dogrzebać się do serwera działającego w ojczystym języku, a mastodon.social puchnie. Dopiero co się z niego przeniosłem na pol.social, bo ciężko było używać przez lagi, opóźnienia i błędy 500 w przeglądarce.
Chyba że pan Gargron chce zniechęcić ludzi do #Mastodon pokazując jak powoli działa?🤔
Ech, zamiast #decentralizacja, kolejna wielka instancja. Przykład #matrix.org chyba poszedł na marne...
I’ve been very supportive of @Gargron in the past, I quite like his vision for #Mastodon and I understand a lot of the decisions he’s made in regard to unified design and governance over the project that lots of other people seem to disagree with.
But, this latest change to the official mobile app—promoting mastodon.social over everything else—is exceptionally bad, no way around it. It’s the biggest problem that #Matrix chat has too, and I REALLY don’t want to see it here.
Auf Telegram gibt es einen Fake Account, der unter meinem Namen russische Kriegspropaganda verbreitet. Ich habe keinen Telegram Account, nie gehabt, denn das ist ein dubioses Unternehmen von 2 Russen mit Briefkastenadresse in Dubai. Kann da nur abraten.
@rahmstorf #Matrix macht da hoffnung, finde ich. ein protokoll, um chat programme so zu bauen, dass sie miteinander können. Und mit video, und gruppen, und was man halt so braucht... es kann sich sogar (begrenzt) mit existierenden messengern verbinden, wobei das ne krücke bleibt... @matrix
Hm, just got a #Matrix invite link, opted for one of the #web clients to check it out, then the welcome screen tells me that communication is end to end encrypted.
Uhm yes. E2E #encryption in a hosted application? How does that work without key escrow? Not to mention that I can't register anonymously. So either my email provider, Telco, #Google, #Microsoft,... can hack into my account.
Can't recommend this service if #privacy is a concern.
How we ran a 300+ attendee conference online using an open source stack including tech like #Jitsi, #PeerTube, and #Matrix / #Element - and attendees had a great experience!
I have finally decided that I'll use #Matrix & #XMPP for those who are somewhat or is tech-literate (also with friends) and then use #WhatsApp & #LINE for family and tech-illiterate people 💬
"Much of the reluctance to do what #ClimateChange requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for #austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we’re well rid of, from deadly #emissions to nagging feelings of doom and complicity in destruction?
What if the austerity is how we live now — and the #abundance could be what is to come?"
More #framing
Our currently comfortable lives are an illusion. It's time to wake up.
"As our region grieves, responds and starts to reconstruct after #Gabrielle, many are feeling a deeper unsettlement, a #Matrix-like wake-up call where you realise the world we lived in was based on assumptions that no longer stand."
Mainly #German#Matrix#podcast:
Meet Nico who many might know as the maintainer of the nheko client and a passionate critic. We talked about how he hopes to improve Matrix by voicing concerns on various change proposals and how the similarity of his name and nheko is just a coincidence.
#Matrix#podcast:
Meet Anoa, one of the Spec core team members.
We talked about Matrix events at #FOSDEM2023, the #MatrixSpec core team and Matrix Spec changes (MSCs).