praveen, to Facebook

Mainstream social media and messaging apps (, , etc) are a nightmare for our personal data and freedoms.

We have replacements for most of these services but maintaining these services has recurring cost and effort.

diasp.in is a community project supported by volunteers. We offer , and services.

If we don't find enough volunteers by October 31st, we will be forced to shut it down.

Please volunteer at https://diasp.in/volunteer

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

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.

Help?

gwenlune, to Matrix French
@gwenlune@mas.home.monsiteinternet.org avatar

Du coup je me réintéresse à #matrix .
Par contre je ne trouve pas trop de canaux actifs.
Des suggestions à me proposer? (Si possible en français)
Mon compte Matrix est dans mon profil si vous voulez qu'on rentre en contact par ce biais et éventuellement discuter là-bas

gianmarcogg03, to random

Somebody please tell me when you find a #Matrix to #XMPP bridge that is actually maintained.

madargon, to random
@madargon@is-a.cat avatar

Level of absurd I achieved...

Installed bridge from to , on my VPS with my Matrix instance. Now my instance has effectively better integration with Discord than with the rest of Matrix network.
(I cannot federate yet)

:blobcatdistrurbed: :blobcatfacepalm:

jan, to Matrix
@jan@kcore.org avatar

So, I have instance now... And now?

stanford, to random

I really don't understand why there are bridges for WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram etc., but not for

We found ways to bypass all those "no 3rd party clients" rules, but nobody managed to do it for an open protocol with a similar feature set?

Draconic_NEO, to mastodon
@Draconic_NEO@pawb.fun avatar

Can we get a Matrix Space for Pawb.social

I know that we have a telegram chat for announcements but I think it would also be a good idea to also have a matrix space where we can also get announcements and maybe even also chat and get support.

One of the reasons I think we should is that not everyone has Telegram and it requires a phone number to sign up to, but a lot of people have Matrix and even if they don't it's easy to sign up to. Another reason is that telegram isn't a great platform due to it being a centralized corporate platform which is now allowing/forcing ads on it, some of which for very sketchy blockchain services, which obviously isn't great and is a pretty big reason people would want to avoid it.

(I posted this from so it could reach further and also so I could mention people).

@pawbsocial_feedback @crashdoom

spaceraser, to Signal
@spaceraser@fosstodon.org avatar

If a enthusiast could help me out with something.

Interested to know if there’s any technical or usability factors that would make you use Telegram over either another big tech offering (, FB ) or another FOSS end to end encrypted service (, ). I’ve previously assumed that it was popular in Eastern Europe because it was made in the region, but don’t want to miss anything.

raulo, to fediverse

Years ago, I installed my own server out of sheer technical curiosity. I abandoned it as soon as I found out it worked. Later, I became a consumer, and the buyout made me create a second Mastodon account. Now there's a , and I found out that you can follow and interact with posts from within my Mastodon app. I find this incredible and love the !

Now I am curious whether and could similarly be integrated.

cyrus, to Matrix
@cyrus@wetdry.world avatar

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!)

matrix, (edited ) to Matrix
@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar

We're glad to see that Tchap, which is built on , is one of the messaging tools that remain available to French civil servants following this change in policy: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-requires-ministers-to-swap-whatsapp-signal-for-french-alternatives/

ju916, to Matrix
@ju916@chaos.social avatar

What matrix chatserver do you use and why?

matrix, to Matrix
@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar

We are positively overwhelmed with the outpouring of support 🚀

People are responding to our call for help! We've also had a number of smaller organizations show up and begin the process of becoming supporting members.

This is encouraging progress, though we still have a lot of work to do to hit our fundraising goals.

Join us in securing the future of open, private, decentralized communications with Matrix: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/01/2024-roadmap-and-fundraiser/

xyhhx, to Matrix

you know, i really want to like . i really do. in fact, it's the only group orient IM i use. but it's lack of decent mod tools is pathetic.

communities are being harassed with and and they can't do anything about it. i'm actually ashamed that i recommend it to people.

this isn't new, and they've lost huge communities to it. i'm actually fucking pissed. this should be number one priority, no excuses.

@matrix @matthew @element

do something

liaizon, to Matrix
@liaizon@wake.st avatar

just came across (https://telodendria.io), a light weight server written in C:
"You can run Telodendria on just about everything, including more traditional options like a personal home server or VPS, but also more obscure platforms like Raspberry Pis or retro computers"

"Telodendria aims to be stable. It should just work for long periods of time between upgrades, and you should never feel like it is going to change significantly between upgrades."

https://telodendria.io

cherti, to Matrix

Hey, I'm currently doing a little research on the cost of modern social media and messaging, given that cost is an everlasting discussion when trying to move people to more free alternatives.

I am still looking for data for messaging, such as and . So if you have or know someone who operates a somewhat sizable instance for either XMPP or Matrix and would potentially share some details about operational cost with me I would love to hear about it! :)

Thank you so much! 💙

:BoostOK:

dbrgn, to Matrix German
@dbrgn@chaos.social avatar

Uff, bei sieht man als Serveradmin im Log jeden Klick eines Users auf einen Chat im Matrix Client 😕 So viel zum Thema Metadatensparsamkeit.

josh, to Matrix
@josh@josh.tel avatar

You know who will never mine your private communications to train an LLM?

Better yet, you know whose words you don't need to trust, because you aren't obligated to use any particular server? And the software is open source? And regularly audited by security researchers?

Matrix.

It's not perfect, but no tool is. It's a matter of what trade offs you're willing to accept. Just sayin' ¯_(ツ)_/¯

shoq, to foss
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS. I am looking for a React-capable, full-stack developer who would like to lead a new fork of #Element.io. The existing forks are simply not very aggressive, and there is a massive void for a project that is. I am confident that a few new features and some better documentation will make it very popular, very fast. #developers #FOSS #matrix

scy, to Matrix
@scy@chaos.social avatar

An interesting document outlining several serious problems inherent to the protocol (and its implementations) titled “why not matrix?”:
https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

There’s also a response by Matrix.org project lead and CEO of @matthew:
https://lobste.rs/s/wvi9xw/why_not_matrix#c_erbsnb

To be honest: Even after the response, the original article – and my own experience with Matrix & Element – leaves me wondering whether Matrix is really the way to go, and whether these issues can ever be solved.

vwbusguy, to Matrix
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

For some reason not all of my conversations show up in so I end up having two versions of installed on my phones which is not wonderful for battery life and data usage. Element X should have been branded as Element Beta or something along those lines.

ramsey, to opensource
@ramsey@phpc.social avatar

I’m curious how many communities have had their communication bifurcated because the Libera.Chat bridge was shut down “temporarily” (seems indefinitely) on ?

farcaller, to Matrix
@farcaller@hdev.im avatar

experience on the phone (iOS) is atrocious.

There are 3 clients total. Element seems to support all the features but has some horrendously bad UX. It's cryptic to the point where it's hard to figure how to navigate it. It also randomly doesn't show messages in the threads until very late after.

FluffyChat is clearly not a native app. You just feel it in how clunky the interactions are. Doesn't support threading either, which makes it useless for e.g. the slack bridge.

I remember Element X was actually a good experience, but it requires some specific protocol extension that's implemented with a proxy that doesn't work with Conduit

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