awoodsnet (@awoodsnet@phpc.social)
So I created a new matrix account – “@awoods:frei.chat” – to experiment. I’ve managed to join chat rooms on other matrix servers. Now I can chat with people in the Linux Unplugged and the Destination Linux communities. Well, I `can` but I'm actually just lurking for now :D
If you're also setting up a matrix account, feel free to chat with me.
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petrikas (@petrikas@mastodon.art)
This looks nice? A comfortable #Matrix chat client.
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display (@display@anonsys.net)
The Big #Dilemma:
Inside: Pride, hard work, and flags that fly
Outside: Armies, oil, and bananas nearby
#capitalism #politics #world #worldorder #military #nwo #democracy #problem #ethics #humanrights #resources #exploitation #labour #system #matrix #trade #economy #humanity #war #terror #wtf #omg #conflict #justice #finance #propaganda #fake #government
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raurquiz (@raurquiz@c.im)
#happybirthday #christinaricci #actress #Mermaids #TheAddamsFamily #Casper #NowandThen #Monstrous #Batman #CapedCrusader #Wednesday #Yellowjackets #Matrix #Resurrections #TheIceStorm #Buffalo66 #TheOppositeofSex #Pecker #sleepyhollow #ProzacNation #Pumpkin #Monster #PanAm #TheLizzieBordenChronicles #ZTheBeginningofEverything
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vvbudh (@vvbudh@climatejustice.social)
@kitkat @matrix that’s not necessarily true for everyone’s use case. I’ll be losing quite a lot by leaving Discord. And matrix is not necessarily the better option.
They also built and maintained their own server for a year and a half. Their server was inaccessible because the main matrix.org server went down.
I’m honestly thinking #IRC will be a better alternative for me than matrix. Simply due to the effort required in managing and setting up a #matrix server versus an IRC server.
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objects (@objects@fe.disroot.org)
Aaaaand here it is, folks:
The Matrix.org Foundation admitting that you’re really no better off with them than with Discord when it comes to age verification, because they—like Discord—must comply with the law.
Granted, the subtle difference with Matrix is that age verification will only apply to Matrix servers in countries that have passed age verification laws—but the fact of the matter remains that none of us will be able to get around this bullshit simply by switching messaging platforms.
Make no mistake:
You’re not sticking it to Discord when you leave that platform for another because of their new age verification policy. In fact, if you and your community use Discord often, you may even just be shooting yourself in the foot, because the next platform you move to—which may not work as well for your needs as Discord does—will eventually fall victim to these draconian laws as well.
Though it can’t hurt to let the company know just how much you hate this age verification policy, the real solution here isn’t boycotting Discord. The real solution here is stopping those laws and/or getting them repealed.
Easy, right? 😒
Fuck, why’d I have to be born in the Stupidest Timeline of Earth History?
#AgeVerification #Discord #Matrix #OpenWeb #Privacy
RE: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/116058372471539834
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16180339887 (@16180339887@gts.tuttipazzi.cyou)
looks like update time...
v0.10.12 · Famedly / Conduit · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/releases/v0.10.12
#Conduit #Matrix #TuttiPazzi
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mous_tik (@mous_tik@discuss.systems)
Content warning:long post about Element's US Gov contracts
I understand your business perspective. "Money has no smell," as they say, and a contract is a contract. To survive in this capitalist world, it seems any means are justified—even providing organizations like ICE or a modern-day Gestapo with encryption tools through paid service contracts.
It’s your right. After all, you say it yourselves in your blog posts: the "bad guys" will always find ways to protect themselves (like cryptochat), but the "good guys" find themselves attacked on all sides by laws that weaken encryption. https://element.io/blog/the-online-safety-bill-an-attack-on-encryption/ So, in your view, it’s honorable to provide governments with the means to protect their communications.
But there is a catch: responsibility. You are, in fact, responsible for allowing governments to hide their intentions by helping them shield themselves from journalistic investigation. It is one thing for these governments to use Matrix to set up their own instances; it is quite another for you to actively help them. This makes you complicit in the atrocities orchestrated by ICE.
Nothing stops you from saying you will no longer participate in the infrastructure of deporting legitimate populations. I would even argue that, from a business standpoint, you would gain more in the long run. You don't know if there will be another "Nuremberg trial" tomorrow or not. For money today, you are taking a massive risk. The damage to your image is enormous. Nothing stops you from saying: "Stop, we have ethics."
Encryption must be universal, but having a contract with the US government or with ICE is something else entirely than simply letting them use the protocol on their own. They can do everything themselves; they can hire people themselves and take the responsibility of being judged themselves for using encryption for negative ends and for perpetuating morally reprehensible attacks. This is where the law of universal access to encryption ends. If you participate, you engage your own morals and your own ethics.
#Matrix #Element #Privacy #Ethics #Encryption
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cf (@cf@todon.eu)
Content warning:In reference to the recent global chat musings.
Having been on #Matrix for a long time, right now We're seeing a lot of creatures interested in self-hosing their own homeserves, We have a word of caution.
#Synapse is a demanding piece of software, not only being unusually heavy for a self-hosted chat software in its hardware demands, but it keeps needing to be actively maintained, this year already the homeserver We help out with experienced two new and exciting failure modes that needed to be addressed immediately.
With the main problem being not necessarily that the problems are very hard to deal with (though sometimes they are), but that it demands you to be ready to jump into action on a moment's notice, or else all your users can't actually use your instance and the longer it goes on the more you risk rooms getting permanently desynchronized.
We would advise to just offer help to an already existing homeserver instead, be that financial or maintenance wise, or band together with at least three other creatures who want to do sysadmin stuff for that, if you insist on self-hosting.
#Mtarix #Discord #DiscardDiscord #LeaveDiscord #DiscordAlternatives #Undertale #Sans #selfhost #selfhosting
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dave (@dave@europhiles.uk)
On the 27th November I emailed support@matrix.org asking if my accounts could be manually removed from their chat rooms. Despite not running a #matrix chat server for over a year, and returning a "410 permanently gone" status, I was still getting constantly spammed by several thousand servers. I resorted to using fail2ban and blocking them for weeks at a time. This all arose because I had had several attempts at setting up Synapse, which in a tribute to bad documentation and my incompetence, I'd failed.
Anyway, I have just received a reply, 2½ months later, suggesting I email the abuse@matrix.org address. Great. That's what I call support!!!
Ironically, since November I've have had another go at setting up Matrix - this time succesfully - using #tuwunel (née conduwit). This was so I could join the #GoToSocial rooms. However, I'm going nowhere near any of the big chat rooms on matrix.org. Matrix appears to adopt the "Hotel California" philosophy.
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vvbudh (@vvbudh@climatejustice.social)
@matrix Matrix is not ready for all of the discord Exodus. Needs more decentralization from the primary server and better moderation tools, and easier setup for admins. #matrix #Discord #exodus #tech #linux
“And that's...it. Element promises more, like native video conferencing, but heaven help you if you're trying to self-host it. It is technically possible, but by no means simple.
"Technically possible, but by no means simple" aptly describes up the entire Matrix experience, actually.
I ran a private Matrix server for about a year and a half. Why private? In two public Matrix rooms I had joined—including the room for Synapse admins—I experienced a common attack in which troll accounts spam the room with CSAM material. Horrible, but not just for the participants and admins in the room. Through the magic of federation, every server who has a user participating in the room now has a copy of the CSAM material, and has to take action to remove it. This requires a manual curl request on the server itself, because Synapse has an appalling lack of moderation tools. It's so bad that, without third-party tooling, you can't even ban a user outright from a server; you have to manually ban them from every single room.
Then came September 2, 2025. The outageof matrix.org caused by drive failures was not an indictment of Matrix's database management or recovery process—in fact, I was quite impressed with their response. But it did put the lie to Matrix's decentralization for me. Almost none of my friends could use Matrix, even though I was hosting my own server. The onboarding pipeline (especially via Element) is so focused on the flagship server, I daresay it comprises the plurality of Matrix accounts. It's not easy to get any statistics for all Matrix users, but that is my guess. How "decentralized" is that, really? Just because something can be decentralized doesn't make it so.
Isn't that right, ATProto?
I'm probably a little too close to this one. I so badly wanted Matrix to work, and I tried to make it work for my purposes for a long time. Ultimately, the pain points overcame the benefits. But if you care most about an intersection of message encryption, federation, and decentralization, and you're willing to put in quite a lot of admin time, Matrix can be a viable community chat platform.”
https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
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post (@post@mander.xyz)
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
https://mander.xyz/post/47333919
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