I was sold on Matrix as a viable alternative to Discord but recently read this article which made it look not so good.
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Meh, I use it. I’ll take it over Discord or Telegram any day. But I don’t use it for anything that may be sensitive or anything involving IRL people.
It’s leaky. I remember all media were uploaded unencrypted and available over https, I don’t know if it is still like that. Lots and lots of metadata out in the open. To be searchable you have to give your phone number to a centralized service. The protocol is overly complex, all messages live on all servers of everyone involved in the conversation, lots of duplication, but ActivityPub is like that too and we are on Lemmy…
If I set my own stuff up, I prefer XMPP, and increasingly Simplex. If some project uses matrix, I have an account and will talk to them there.
Overall I’m not a fan, but I don’t outright hate it.
You don’t have to give them your phone number to be searchable, just use your matrix ID
Files in encrypted rooms are encrypted
Your not wrong about the metadata but xmpp leaks the same amount it just doesn’t goto every server that has a user in the room
No, to be searchable by your friends you have to attach your matrix ID to your phone number and upload it to an identity server, which anyone can run of course but which is useless unless its the new vector identity server. It’s a central database of verified matrix IDs.
you dont, users can find me just fine without sending my phone number to an idenity server, please stop spreading FUD
OK… Google “matrix identity server” since you don’t know what I’m trying to say.
I know exactly what it is and you dont need one to be found
No you don’t 🙂 DM your Matrix ID and I’ll show you.
you have to attach your matrix ID to your phone number
Yes, this is FUD, it’s not necessary, and entirely opt-in. Also you don’t even need to connect to the identity server.
Yeah, you don’t have to. But to be able to easily prove you are who you are to IRL people you will. And the decision tells you something about the product and protocol design.
what? no you dont and the founders have said they dont like them at all since they go against the core of matrix but they make alot of sense in businesses for an internal chat app
