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 …
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?
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?