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One thing I never liked about Element is the devs’ refusal to put effort into supporting multiple accounts. Now I’m starting to wonder if that was a deliberate choice and not a fundamental technical limitation. Discouraging multiple accounts and effectively forcing people to use one identity for everything is exactly the sort of requirement I’d expect from VCs looking to sell out to advertisers.
I find matrix incredibly frustrating. From random messages never loading, to missing messages, to random permission issues between clients. I’d love an alternative. I’m curious about some of these suggestions though, I’ll check them out tomorrow. Id love to get off Google chat for my personal comms.
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Better to use SimpleX than Deltachat tbh
According to the article:
Anti-recommendations:
SimpleX Chat – Many suggested this and I will explicitly recommend against it due to the founder’s positions on various topics. This includes being anti-vaxx, believing COVID-19 was a hoax, trans- and homophobia, climate denial; In the SimpleX Groupchat he’s also been seen basically bootlicking trump a couple times, but I’ve lost receipts to that.
I don’t see how that reflects on the project, even more so since you are nor supporting them in any way by using SimpleX, since it’s not paid, free/libre and decentralised
It’s objectively one of the best secure messengers out there (right next to Signal and Briar) with Matrix trailing by a bit but still faaaar ahead of most other stuff
How does this effect the hexbear matrix channels?
Not really, to my understanding. Hexbear runs everything off chapo.chat which is mostly unaffected by the matrix.org issue. Obviously, don’t use Element and there might be a hard fork in the future but it shouldn’t be insurmountable. Matrix still remains a decent protocol despite having an uncertain future and the replacements aren’t very promising. (I know polyproto was mentioned but I’ve seen dozens of Discord-esque chat protocols come and go, and it being a de facto personal project doesn’t help.) Defederation with matrix.org might happen as well.
Also, I’ll be honest, I miss irc and xmpp and jabber. I know they’re alive and well, but sometimes I wish irc was what everyone was using still.
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This is why I wish China would do more coopting of western FOSS tech instead of building their own tech stacks from scratch. Like I get why they are doing it, but one way to deslopify Matrix would be a number of Western articles claiming Matrix (or any other federated FOSS communication platform) was a CCP op.
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Found https://hexchat.github.io/ in the contributors for ircv3
Anyone here familiar with this?: https://polyproto.org/docs/intro/ was mentioned in the article and seems pretty neat, though still in the very early stages.
Federation is a bad model.
