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Ah, thanks! I came across that a while ago but had forgotten about it. It seems to have come along quite a ways.
by justinsaccount 10y ago
Ah, thanks! I came across that a while ago but had forgotten about it. It seems to have come along quite a ways.
- nextos 10y agoYes, their web & mobile client https://riot.im https://riot.im is very polished now. They are also rolling e2e crypto.
- justinsaccount 10y agoIt may be a little over engineered for what I want it for, but it does work! I started up the reference server in a docker container and wrote a quick bot using the provided python-sdk and can interact with it using the client on my phone. The main downside(from my perspective) is that it's a lot of moving parts, and I think I'd be more happy with just irc over tls since I at least know how that works :-)
- kscz 10y agoIt's mostly a question of mobile support: IRC (over TLS or otherwise) requires a continuous connection, where matrix and signal are designed to support polling a push notification endpoint. Out of curiosity: what makes you say Matrix is over-engineered?
- justinsaccount 10y agoOh.. maybe not over-engineered, but just more involved than what I need. I mostly just want a way to move messages back in forth. I don't need voice or video calls or anything like that.
- nextos 10y agoOne of the use cases Matrix was designed for is Internet of Things, so I think it's just fine for you. Video calls come thanks to WebRTC in browsers, Matrix is just a transport protocol. I think it's quite light.