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It's against the rules to call it out on HN, but given how incredible Matrix is, I will happily risk being banned to share that I believe there is an astroturfi
by fartcannon 6y ago
It's against the rules to call it out on HN, but given how incredible Matrix is, I will happily risk being banned to share that I believe there is an astroturfing campaign currently being undertaken to promote Signal and that you should take the complaints with a grain of salt. Matrix and other competition are being cast with FUD in an attempt to sway fence sitters.
Thank you for Matrix and Element. My non-technical friends and family all use it without issue.
- omnimus 6y agoFunnily enough it seems like opposite and people are trying to put down Singal. Seriously we are all on the same side. It's not competition. I've been running matrix instance for probably 6 years from times even before Vector. The constant popups happening and mysterious verification fails gotten pretty annoying. So much that my non-technical friends started to complain. It has gotten objectively worse in past year. I happily use both Signal as SMS replacement and Matrix for community/slack. Signal can't do chatrooms / more people well and it will probably never will. Matrix on the other hand is much worse at ux of the encryption process and overall user friendliness for casual users. It's not long ago when matrix didn't have 1on1 chats and would just make new room with 2people named after them.
- fartcannon 6y agoSignal is a single point of failure, cell-phone number dependent chat app. It should be put down along with WhatsApp. If you don't own the server, you are not in control of your information.
- omnimus 6y agoNobody cares if you own the server if there are no users on it. Also it's not like Matrix.org is not single master instance that can fail just as easily. Even better most of data there is not e2e encrypted so yes if somebody hacks it you will loose all the information.