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I recently found that there is a room setting to enable the generation of URL previews. This makes me wonder, though: Who is generating the thumbnails? Does the server generate them, and then send the images back (this is an obvious privacy, and security vulnerability)? Does a user generate them locally, and send them to the...

I’m looking for a way to create new stickers since I’m moving from Telegram and I’d like to move the stickers I created there to Matrix. One thing I discovered is StickerPicker but I don’t know if there is a simpler way

Title + I know best is subjective but why you prefer your one....

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Exciting news about Matrix 2.0. A bit of a long post but really interesting read.

Mainly, I’m not sure if this works as such....

Anyone have any recommendations?

Do I need my original signing keys? The server ran out of space due to huge pgsql table size, and I don’t feel like trying to salvage any part of it. I want to move most of the processes into my home infrastructure with maybe a vps in front of the public connectivity....

Is there a way to change the display name of a contact? I have some people in a group chat that only have numbers as their display name, which I’d like to change only for myself to be something more useful.

My Matrix server is on Oracle Cloud. At one point, while messing with something on it, I accidentally enabled the firewall for port 22, so I can no longer access it via SSH. I think I also disabled password login, as I cannot log in over Oracle’s remote terminal service. Also, the backups had filled up the drive space without...

My understanding is Element for Android uses silent notifications out of the box. From github.com/vector-im/…/notifications.md#how-does-…:...

I mean, instead of running your own Matrix server?

Title. Key management is so not intuitive at all. You have your session verification key in case you have no access to another session. Fine, i totally understand. Then you have E2E room keys you can either backup on your homeserver or in a file. Fine, except not so much. I exported my room keys to a backup file and deleted them...

Can you have a paywall on a matrix space or matrix room so users will have to pay to join spaces or rooms? Is the following functionality possible for a Matrix room/space?...

No comparison to WhatsApp and Co....

There’s a growing concern that “bad-actors” are amassing troves of encrypted data, and storing it away for possible future decryption using quantum computers. Many services have put in efforts to make certain that their encryption algorithms are “quantum-safe”, so as to protect against such attacks. Has Matrix done the...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2077535...

cross-posted from: lemmy.perthchat.org/post/516304...

I see that in the blog post regarding Element Call, they say that Element Call is fully implemented using Matrix:...

I have been trying to figure out a way that my son can have a messaging account, that doesn’t track him and that we can limit who he has access to and who has access to him....

Is there a way to connect Matrix to MS Teams? And for bonus points, Zoom’s messaging system?