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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

All I need is a client that looks and feels like discord to replicate voice channels and I will switch to matrix and host my own instance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Blisterexe 8 points 2 hours ago

That's up to clients to implement, not part of the protocol.

But yeah its kinda dumb its not a thing in element

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Huge!

Ensuring that Unable To Decrypt (UTD) bugs never happen. Huge amounts of work has gone into this over the course of the year, especially via complement-crypto as a comprehensive end-to-end-test suite for both matrix-rust-sdk and matrix-js-sdk based Matrix clients. We are finally at the point where UTDs are so rare that most people simply never see them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago

I'm very excited for this! Granted, I do wish they'd stop "announcing" Matrix 2.0, but I think the release of SSS alone is reason enough for celebration.

I have sync issues with even Slack or WhatsApp when I use an old device that hasn't updated in a while - Matrix's new sync scheme is genuinely fantastic and fixes all the issues my aging synapse server was having (4+ year server means those initial syncs on log-in could tak upwards of 10 minutes).

Now I just want Element Call to work with my pre-existing accounts and then I'll be ready for the next Matrix 2.0 announcement 😂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I'd use Matrix but the last time I jumped on all the chats were dead and the ones I had joined had all been spammed with CSAM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, "Matrix as IRC" with general interest rooms is an unmonitored cesspool. "Matrix as IM" for staying in touch with mates is doing just fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But then what's the benefit to Signal? Just that it's decentralized?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Decentralization actually can be really powerful to give you a backup even if you prefer Signal; Signal's servers very infrequently go down, but when they do, you entirely lose that channel for an unpredictable amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Wow you weren't kidding lol. I watched the 2.0 demo and at this timestamp there's a CSAM-related room title that Matthew was invited to (at the top of the right window). Granted it's probably someone stream-sniping, but it goes to show that there's apparently active bad actors trying to interfere.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Might need to find more active communities?

The spam thing is annoying, but is a result of anyone being able to join a room and just upload images.

Really wish the large rooms would just disable image uploads, or use a bot to police new users a bit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'm pretty much since the beginning on Matrix. I have never experienced any questionable content. Large chats (thousands of users) have some spam problems, but the spammers banned quickly and the posts are being removed.

What am I doing right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

just this week I've had multiple random matrix accounts start a chat with me to post an Imgur link with some Hitler bs. I assume they just chose random members of one or more fediverse related public matrix rooms to send that to. they probably just do this with random public rooms and the fediverse relation didn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Not joining the rooms Element suggests on its own client? Element will show you a list of suggested, popular rooms to join, and a fuckton of these are overrun by spammers and worse. If Matrix has basically zero ability to curate these rooms outside of "here's what's got the most members", then it absolutely should not in any capacity be recommending them, let alone as a way to get started for new users. It's fucking ridiculous, and before you say "Well why should they be expected to curate the rooms they suggest?", imagine the fucking disaster Discord would have on its hands if it started recommending servers, and several of its top 100 claimed to be related to popular FOSS applications but were actually completely unmoderated and filled with CSAM and Bitcoin scams.