I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future! The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not …
I have moved my communications to SimpleX for very similar reasons.
I always found Matrix to be extremely clunky because of key management for rooms and stuff like that.
I’m used to using cryptocurrencies. I know how to manage keys, and yet I was constantly getting hit with the same issues with decryption of old messages, even when I properly saved my keys and imported them.
I figure if I’m not even able to use this thing properly, knowing and understanding technology, how do I expect people I talk to to understand how to do it properly?
Then, on top of that, I found out about all the metadata leaking to your home server. Sure, your communications might be encrypted, but if the sender, receiver, reactions, timestamp, etc. is not encrypted, that’s not good.
I still have it on my device, but it very rarely gets opened anymore.
Edit: I use a combination of signal for those I know, IRL, and simplex for groups of FOSS enthusiasts, etc.
How are you using Simplex as a replacement for Matrix? That’s not a leading question - I’m curious about the use case.
I stopped using Matrix for 1:1 and family chat years ago because of how broken encryption has always been, but I’ve kept using it for public chats since
privacy isn’t solvable in public chats, so the fact Matrix’s encryption is terminally screwed up isn’t relevant
there are many public rooms; not IRC-level, but it’s still a large domain with large numbers of users
Matrix is a better public chat than IRC (fight me!) with replies, comment editing, reactions, emojis (that’s mostly a client thing, but it’s first-class and not a sporadically supported feature), and offline history syncing (as in, see what happened while you were offline).
I haven’t yet found anything that’s as good at public rooms as Matrix, that’s still federated and OSS. Discord is very good, but it’s SPA crap and centralized to boot.
SimpleX seems to be focused primarily on messaging, not public, large group chat… but am I missing something?
I have moved my communications to SimpleX for very similar reasons.
I always found Matrix to be extremely clunky because of key management for rooms and stuff like that.
I’m used to using cryptocurrencies. I know how to manage keys, and yet I was constantly getting hit with the same issues with decryption of old messages, even when I properly saved my keys and imported them.
I figure if I’m not even able to use this thing properly, knowing and understanding technology, how do I expect people I talk to to understand how to do it properly?
Then, on top of that, I found out about all the metadata leaking to your home server. Sure, your communications might be encrypted, but if the sender, receiver, reactions, timestamp, etc. is not encrypted, that’s not good.
I still have it on my device, but it very rarely gets opened anymore.
Edit: I use a combination of signal for those I know, IRL, and simplex for groups of FOSS enthusiasts, etc.
How are you using Simplex as a replacement for Matrix? That’s not a leading question - I’m curious about the use case.
I stopped using Matrix for 1:1 and family chat years ago because of how broken encryption has always been, but I’ve kept using it for public chats since
SimpleX seems to be focused primarily on messaging, not public, large group chat… but am I missing something?