If you’re a old school person wishing to host your own messaging, I bet you’d go for IRC or XMPP. But I’m more of a late millennial, so it’s easier to get drawn to fancy stuff like Matrix, a protocol for federated communication.

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4 days ago

I’ll be adding to this cluster in the future too as we continue development on Xeme which is our new XMPP library as well as Myna which is our new Matrix library.

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about 1 month ago

After some digging I got an active forum in matrix called extensions-gnome. I relentlessly asked so many questions to the members until I get what I need and finally I was able to have a good dev environment.

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2 months ago

The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I’ve used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else. So… Since I’ve heard about the ads coming to discord, and I have looked into alternatives. They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of…

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4 months ago

GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects.

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6 months ago

Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it’s worth keeping in mind that it’s not end-to-end encrypted, so it’s less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use. For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in),…

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7 months ago

I’d love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance. [0] https://matrix.org.

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10 months ago

Trillian mod here. There’s this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It’s not as the good old times, but I’m currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It’s not Cerulean experience, but it’s… Slowly improving.

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10 months ago

I’m trying to change my account provider from “matrix.org” to whatever Element One needs, and for the life of me I just don’t understand what values I have to put where to be able to log in. I tried `element.io`, which takes me to sso.element.io but this doesn’t seem like the right thing (no credentials work as I expect.

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11 months ago

Matrix – I currently have my family chat on WhatsApp, but I plan to give my daughters tablets for Xmas and I want them to have a way to chat with family without needing to have a phone number or signup to WhatsApp.

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about 1 year ago

The new chat is somewhat interesting. It looks like it’s built on matrix. Anything else?

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about 1 year ago

> Telegram isn’t great for having an overarching place for everyone to join with siloed discussions for sub-categories of discussion. Just want to point out that they fixed this, it’s possible to create Topics once the channel’s community reaches 200 users. Though this probably isn’t what most users want for a support channel. Having one place to go is simpler then a community with a dozen company meme channels…

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about 1 year ago

Telegram isn’t great for having a main topic with siloed discussions about sub-categories of things. Slack costs a lot of money if you want searchable history. Matrix (https://matrix.org/) is pretty bad when you get to using it. It works, but the QOL isn’t up to Discord’s level. Discord is just as easy to replace as any other chat platform if they decide to sell out or destroy their product.

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about 1 year ago

Matrix is really nice too, I personally use Element as a client.

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about 1 year ago

You can read up about the Matrix project on their website: https://matrix.org/.

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about 1 year ago

As mentioned, I do not use closed-source services either. So, I do not use services by big tech companies. People use gmail, google drive, google search, WhatsApp, Zoom, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft Office, photoshop etc. All these services collect and sell your data. I use ProtonMail, Nextcloud, Matrix, Jitsi, Jellyfin, LibreOffice, GIMP etc. Most of these sre self-hosted, that is, they are hosted on my home…

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about 1 year ago

Matrix

Matrix clients and mobile apps
Cinny (featured Matrix client)
Element (featured Matrix client)
FluffyChat (featured Matrix client)
List of fren and/or free speech Matrix servers.

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about 1 year ago

Let me put it in another way: of all the existing projects out there, which one does actually bring material benefit to the users and publishers compared with, e.g, Mastodon, Matrix, Movim or Nostr?

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over 1 year ago

There have been decentralized social network such as Mastodon and Matrix. Though, both lacks of user adoption due to confusing user experience and hard to scale since most of them are public goods fully run on altruism.

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over 1 year ago

Also means that corporate profit-mongers such as Discord will get a lot more traffic. Sure, there is Matrix too, which is a non-profit foundation with a very sound mission of public service and an unfortunately bad branding. Both are chat-based platforms, so not Reddit replacements exactly.

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over 1 year ago

Title. I want to use matrix’s excellent chat protocol but there doesn’t seem to be a built in client, and the element web client sucks to use seeing as half of the UI elements don’t seem to work.

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over 1 year ago