Sounds like an attempt to curb their massive abuse problem.
On Matrix, you can actually upload files using special message types that don't even show up on normal clients, but persist forever... you can imagine the very illegal types of content that people post using such methods.
Or that :) Doesnt really make sense tho. Any XMPP server could implement something like this if they wanted. Would that then make you dump XMPP because one server did it?
This will cause users like me to finally dump this flaming pile of garbage and return to XMPP.
The general idea was announced a while back but the details are even more strict than i expected.
Dont get me wrong i think this is an absolutely great move. The matrix.org homeserver has waaaay to many users and its not healthy for the matrix ecosystem. This will cause people to move to other servers, because 1MB is almost unusable and that is probably the intention behind this move too.
Nice short but informative write up. Policy servers are hugely needed, considering the horrible gore and CSAM spam waves i experienced in some very big public rooms.
Cosmic rays??
Delivers more than 80% resource savings compared to Community Synapse
Not hard to do when you disable scrollback and image previews.
I just hope that there will be FOSS clients to interact with their systems. If in the end the patients still have to trust closed source clients then that would suck.
Just go to a different server to distribute the load or self host. Its good for the matrix ecosystem when less users depend on the matrix.org server.
I am missing a lot of partners/institutions. Why are they not funding matrix? There is legitimate interest from many.
I like having such a freemium model. If you aren't using the service much, you don't put a big burden with your images. An alternative could be to delte stuff after x years.
I run my own Matrix server. (tuwunel ftw)
Element 1-on-1 calls are based on WebRTC, and are native as I see it. I'm not sure if this works with multiple people, haven't tried it yet but I think so.
The video calls work over a Jitsi plugin, but it's quite bad. Element Call is a Matrix-native video solution and is currently in beta.
I don't know. I know the first implementation in element just had jitsi rooms but you couldn't see if anyone was in them, so discoverablity was really bad
Oic, so not Matrix itself, but Element adding another service in its client.
Does it have any amount of integration though? - As in, can someone using a Matrix client other than Element (and not supporting the Jitsi thingy) know if any 2 users of Element are doing an audio chat?
element does, based on jitsi webrtc
voice room discovery is very weak (who is online, who is talking, etc)
Matrix has voice rooms‽
I want matrix/element to be able to replace discord
They are not ready
Maybe in another 5 years...
I may have missed the news, but which was the other organisation attacking matrix?
E: Presumably Wire? https://wire.com/en/blog/matrix-not-safe-eu-data-privacy
Yeah there are no real moderation tools. There needs to be a dedicated room/message structure for reports so that room admins/mods can have a unified way to receive reports inside the client.
That mjolnir isn't part of the server deployment template and not even provided by matrix.org servers ist just sad. Matrix rooms are so badly moderated because the moderation tools suck. I found out at some point that "reports" only go to your server admim, not the room's mods and admins. It makes no sense.