Arathorn

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by Arathorn 2y ago
Element X ( https://element.io/blog/deep-dive-into-element-x ) is intended to spell out how lightweight and unbloated an Element-style client can be. The only main missing features are threads and spaces which should lan
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by Arathorn 2y ago
As a protocol, Matrix has all of these features (custom emoji is a proposal, but many clients implement it). As a client, Element has all of these (encrypted search only on Desktop for now) other than custom emoji.
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Running your own secure comms service with Matrix 2.0 and element-docker-demo(element.io)
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by Arathorn 2y ago
would be genuinely interested in if the “oneliner” docker-compose approach at https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo works better for you :)
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by Arathorn 2y ago
https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo in the end
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Realising the irony of commenting on this given the sibling, but for the sake of accuracy: > with Matrix if you join a group chat hosted on another server, the entire history of the chat gets synced to your server. This is not true. By
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by Arathorn 2y ago
how are you measuring perf? sync should be instant with sliding sync no matter how small the server is. are you talking about time to join big rooms? or resources used for participating in big rooms?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
The reality is that worst case, it should feel like a laptop (username, password (unless using SSO) + recovery key) or a cryptocurrency wallet. With the v2 crypto, you typically don't have to remember anything - you just scan a QR code
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by Arathorn 2y ago
That's ended up becoming a global setting, which merged a few days ago ( https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/pull/3467 ) so hasn't been released yet. We're catching up on features as rap
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by Arathorn 2y ago
what server is this on? (as these sound like serverside issues). please can you submit debug logs so we can take a look? needless to say, this shouldn't be happening.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Content only gets stored on your local server if a local user downloads it by viewing it before the message or the original content gets deleted. Separately, you can block abusive servers manually if needed (e.g. https://elemen
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> But that still means there is only one actual trusted server implementation, right? Nope? Dendrite works. It's just stuck in beta for now due to lack of manpower. > I thought the point of dendrite was to be able to prove that M
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup, totally - and the quick-start thing i'm playing with (just got it working!) is not a replacement for that at all. it's just literally providing a solution for people who want to type `docker compose up` and have something imm
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by Arathorn 2y ago
There are loads of SDKs which work well - as well as matrix-rust-sdk and matrix-js-sdk there's also excellent fully-featured indie libraries for Dart, Kotlin, C++, Go, Python (and many other others which don't have full parity). Y
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup. it's gutting that nobody has put $ behind the bar to support it. the entirety of Reddit chat is/was built on Dendrite, but they (and many others) chose not to put money behind it, unfortunately.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
that's pseudo IDs; MSC4014 ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/keg... ). it got implemented in Dendrite, but hasn't made it into Synapse (or the spec) yet.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
repo's currently called element-quick-start (given i'm doing it with my Element hat on to showcase EW+EX+EC as much as the Matrix 2.0 backend)
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by Arathorn 2y ago
So I did a catalyst build of EX a while back (which is where https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/106021 came from) - but rather anticlimactically the end result looked almost identical to the normal iOS
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by Arathorn 2y ago
they haven’t had formal independent review yet, but we will get them audited. there are relatively few changes in practice though other than fixing bugs, removing confusing UX and adding the beginnings of TOFU. Off the top of my head it’s o
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Unlike the Mozilla Foundation, if someone came to Element (or the Matrix Foundation) with a large bag of $ and asked for it to specifically fund P2P, then a conversation could definitely be had.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yes, unfortunately. Dendrite almost got out of beta, but (very frustratingly) we didn’t have the $ to keep developing Synapse and Dendrite fulltime - so we consolidated on Synapse, given it was already mature and deployed everywhere, and ar
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Yup. On macOS you can use the iOS build of EX already today (i daily drive it, and it’s very usable). Meanwhile, I built an unreleased prototype of a possible EX Desktop which uses Tauri + matrix-rust-sdk (codenamed aurora) - weirdly enoug
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup, i'm the CTO, and I don't have notifs enabled on Android and so hadn't checked - I daily-drive iOS. The folks "in charge of ensuring the project's vision and goals are met" are the ones running the Element
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> But notification channels are a harder sell, and missing avatars on notifications is just annoying. huh. on Element X iOS, the notif support is genuinely great - you get avatars and groupings and reliable notifs on e2ee msgs. the only
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by Arathorn 2y ago
there's already a standardised export format for message keys (although EX doesn't let you load/save it yet, mainly because online backup already solves most use cases): https://spec.matrix.org/v1.12/clie
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by Arathorn 2y ago
hm - i think it's just because they've been frantically building and haven't time to release. looks like 0.7.1 was the most recent release in Jan; will give them a prod. sorry.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
nah, 1.0 was getting it out of beta and making it work at all. 2.0 has been all about making it work fast and mainstream-ready. https://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Synapse now has native support for sliding sync (the new "instant sync" Matrix 2.0 API, implemented in Element X and other rust-sdk clients like iamb - Element Web has it in labs). The other bits of Matrix 2.0 require new moving p
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by Arathorn 2y ago
well, yes - just let me finish writing it first ;P
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup, although i'm hoping that a self-contained docker-compose repo that you don't need to edit will help with that (rather than it being a homespun docker-compose setup, which i agree can rapidly become unmanageable). ansible just

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