Arathorn

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by Arathorn 2y ago
Afaik Element Web (and the legacy Element mobile apps) are the only ones which have done threads so far, perhaps because the notif problems you mentioned put off the others. These have been fixed now, but others (even Element X) have yet to
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Something isn’t right here; thread notif problems should have been solved a year or so ago. And most apps are not element forks - eg FluffyChat, Nheko, Cinny are all great fully featured apps and separate codebases. The only Element fork i
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The Matrix Holiday Special 2024(matrix.org)
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> Outright denying people's bad experience with Matrix has also been a sad part in Matrix marketing for so long I think if you look at my comments on HN you'll see me spending most of my time trying to explain or apologise for
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I guess the question is whether it’s better to spread objectively and demonstrably false info today (as you are with the completely bogus Matrix 2.0 critique), versus me putting subjective info into a FAQ 10 years ago ;) It might be worth
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by Arathorn 2y ago
fwiw Matrix does do this, although making the OIDC IdP track the right target homeserver might need a bit of config.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I’ll take the superlative marketing :D If folks are interested seeing the companies currently sinking $ into Matrix by routing $ to the Matrix Foundation, you can see them at https://matrix.org/support . Thankfully it’s not
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Yes. The regulation is set up to destroy smaller startups & organisations; the only folks who have a hope of complying with it are Big Tech.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
this is why Matrix is switching to native OIDC rather than the current messy mix: https://areweoidcyet.com
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by Arathorn 2y ago
no? they're talking about matrix.org, which is nothing whatsoever to do with https://www.operation-passionflower.com/
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by Arathorn 2y ago
The matrix.org team has checked directly with Europol, and there is absolutely no link between the Matrix protocol and the MATRIX/MACTRIX/Totalsex/X-quantum/Q-Safe/Mchat app involved in this takedown. https:/&
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Totally unrelated. I guess there's a chance that the service might have been built using the Matrix protocol, but we're unaware of it if so - and the app in question doesn't look like any Matrix client I recognise. Unfortuna
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by Arathorn 2y ago
On the Matrix side, we’d definitely like to help make this happen. Decentralised e2ee is Hard, and after a lot of iteration we’ve got Matrix into a good place these days (plus there’s a new wave of React Native Matrix dev happening atm). Pl
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by Arathorn 2y ago
avatars pictures /are/ just attachments tho?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I believe the bridges should host a proxy (per-bridge) to expose content: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/180...
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by Arathorn 2y ago
got fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mai... fwiw
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by Arathorn 2y ago
what is more permacomputingy about xmpp than matrix, ooi?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
pidgin 3 looks very exciting. it’s worth noting that Element X already provides an spectacularly more stable Matrix client than classic Element.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
i’m flattered you made an acct just to wish us luck :) EX is here, and the jank is gone (although Element Call is admittedly still beta). Sorry it comes too late for you. But just as Bluesky dipped and then returned with critical mass, so c
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by Arathorn 2y ago
On the Matrix side: to be clear, Element Web/Desktop isn't a nice new webapp (yet) - it's an 8 year old codebase which is improving slowly but surely (unless we get lucky and can focus on a step change). Element X however is
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by Arathorn 2y ago
me too. but like all the more scifi Matrix projects, the core team does not have the funds to work on it, so it's stuck in favour of foundational work. Others are welcome to pick it up and contribute it, or apply funding to the core te
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by Arathorn 2y ago
this is literally why i wrote https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I'm trying to agree with the negative points (e.g. I fully agree that Element UX has historically been below par, hence all the work around Element X; elsewhere in the thread you can also see me agreeing about current & historical
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I'm not speaking from a playbook. Sorry that Element worked out so badly for you. Other conferences like FOSDEM seem to be pretty happy with it. If you don't need encryption, decentralisation, or an open standard, then Revolt loo
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Aaaargh, this comment is a nightmare. It is a GOOD THING for people to open MSCs and try to evolve Matrix, and the number of open proposals shows the enthusiasm in the ecosystem for doing so and proposing ways to evolve the protocol. Mean
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by Arathorn 2y ago
i suggest reading the comments here and try to figure out what direction the steamroller is rolling...
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by Arathorn 2y ago
i think you're asking for https://element.io/blog/experimenting-with-matrix-2-0-using-...
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I'd argue that SimpleX has probably learned from the path Matrix has been on... and so has Matrix. So you end up with multiple viable options to pick from, and to drive each other forwards; sounds like a good outcome to me.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
There was a comment here complaining that Matrix is a failure as an open protocol because encryption in Matrix is too complex and hard and PFS is overrated and "why can't we have a simple protocol for chat like Wireguard is for VP
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by Arathorn 2y ago
What are you thinking of in particular? Fwiw, as project lead, i would be first to admit that there were slow bits - eg sync v2, which is why we built sliding sync… and crypto was easy to get wrong, hence shipping a highly polished implemen

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