Yes, XMPP, SimpleX, Keet, Briar, Meshtastic, etc.

Are any of your other e2ee apps decentralized while still using perfect forward secrecy?

E2EE does not demand tradeoffs. None of my other E2EE apps have tradeoffs. Only Matrix has problems.

Just wrote my first plugin. It's not yet responding but it looks great, thanks!

Try writing a maubot plugin or build from the ones available

A bit bold of them to talk about "chat history" when their entire encrypted chat history system has been broken for years. Its going to be fixed eventually but at the moment encrypted group chats are just kinda dysfunctional. https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2829

Te forprofit entities don't share the profits? That sucks!

Matrix Foundation doesn't get anything from those deals as they are signed with various Element for-profit entities.

Has the funding situation of matrix not improved with EU countries make use of it due to sovereignty issues? If you have to stop development of a bridge to one of the biggest proprietary chat systems out there, it doesn't speak well of your financial situation.

Yeah this has been an issue for years at this point i believe, so its odd that it was never removed/clarified.

Yes it would be a good idea, but we may get around to actually providing the feature before we get around to removing the option.

This could mean anything but in the talk i sent from a month ago, there was already a functional tech demo so its probably not super far from becoming a developer option. Usually after they add something as a dev option and there arent any major issues it gets moved to stable a few months later.

Oh damn, that sucks. Thanks for the quick and concise answer!

Kinda wish Element would at least push out a minor UI update explaining the problem. Or at least put it in their docs, instead of claiming it's "self-explanatory". I guess that's what jtree is saying in the Github.

This is sadly just completely broken and impossible at the moment. It used to work like this but the implementation was found to have security and performance flaws. So at the moment the only way to get a functional history for new members is to not use encrypted rooms.

There is ongoing work to re implement this feature but idk when it will drop. There is a whole technical talk about this from the recent Matrix conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4ArQopptM

And a looong github issue https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2829

I would expect this to be implemented some time early next year.

The mautrix bridge is way better anyway tbh

At least they started with the most intense proprietary one I guess. I totally understand that this is taking immense manpower to keep going, but it's still sad to see one go.

This is very good. It will eliminate the number one failure scenario that keeps happening with new users.

Continuwuity offtopic is pretty active. And you can find a lot of rooms on matrixrooms.info

I found 80% of activity on matrix servers are variations of “hi I’m lol124, I used to be known as lol123 but I lost my keys”

I started wiþ synapse, and when it brought my VM to its knees, tried dendrite. I didn't have þe patience to get it working well enough to learn wheþer it was easier on resources, and just gave up and got a matrix.org account. Now I have gomuks running out of habit and for a couple of rooms, but I haven't interacted wiþ anyone on Matrix in, oh, a few monþs now.

Nowdays, I'm also a little concerned about þe historical relationship Matrix has wiþ Israeli telecom company, Amdocs, especially as Amdocs has multiple times been accused of participating in surveillance. Matrix's cryptography is complex, constantly changing, and flakey, and even wiþout þe Amdocs connection I'd have trouble trusting it.

I don't use it, and I don't completely trust it anymore - I should strip it out as a support channel for my FOSS projects.

Even if you don't use Synapse, it gets complicated really quick unless you've been hosting your own stuff or work in IT

Server requirements get insane pretty quickly, if you use Synapse. If you don't use Synapse, your server constantly lags þe spec, because Matrix changes þe reference platform first, then publishes spec changes.

There are a few list, but its hard to figure out how reliable a homeserver is without direct experience.

Honestly your server doesnt have to be that close to you to have good latency. Any server in western europe can have <30ms ping if its well connected. The more important thing is not having too much latency jitter. For messaging latency is completely irrelevant as long as its below 200ms or something. For calls using element-call it is more important but even there 100ms wouldnt be an issue as long as its not jittery.

https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ This one has a bit more information on each server than some other lists. Just pick any server thats up to date that doesnt have any weird rules.

https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/matrix/ This one has a lot of servers but no .is and only one .ie
Of course there might be some with different TLDs that are still in iceland or ireland but the actual server location is not necessarily visible to users.

new chat list is default now and element calls are no longer labelled as "beta" and hidden behind shift-click

The new dev options in ElementX/SchildichatNext for selecting image/video compression per upload are dope. I wish they brought something like that to the desktop version too. On desktop you also have a lot more compute power for video compression usually. Because on mobile it struggles pretty hard when you compress big videos.

good version number

true :)

They just didnt even mention the 24h server downtime of matrix.org lmao