Arathorn

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by Arathorn 2y ago
https://matrix.org/membership/ is how best to support - or buy stuff from organisations who support the Foundation. P2P Matrix requires a 3-4 person team to progress constructively (rather than limping along on a sho
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by Arathorn 2y ago
It's a new app, for now. Once it has full parity with the old app (especially threads & spaces) then it'll replace the old app.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
The commenters are wrong (unless you consider threads or spaces to be absolutely critical to your current workflows). > and now it turns out all of that could have maybe been avoided with this new app that they aren't telling us any
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Yup. One of the biggest learnings of E2EE in Matrix is that the complexity is 95% user experience. However, in Element X, we've been determined to get it right - although there is still some temporary UX in there while full-blown Invi
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Ironically i just spent all weekend writing a new "quick start" guide for Matrix 2.0 deployments using docker-compose (so you literally just set some env variables, `docker compose up` and that's it; no ansible involved). I
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Element X natively integrates Element Call for voip/video calls - this is one of the core things of this week's release. If you hit the video call button, it'll start off with video muted, and it should behave like a voice c
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by Arathorn 2y ago
P2P Matrix is a dialect of Matrix where the server runs inside the client itself - see arewep2pyet.com for details. In other words, there are no servers (other than optional store-and-forward relays). It's insanely cool - you can see
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Yes. the sliding sync proxy shim is gone; Synapse now uses its native database for sliding sync, same as the old sync API - so it works with both postgres & sqlite.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
If the problems were caused by issues in the old Element Android (or Schildichat) app then yes - the Element X rewrite will likely fix it. It supports UnifiedPush, so if you're self-hosting a push gateway it should nicely integrate (as
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by Arathorn 2y ago
there isn’t an “official Matrix Client” any more than there’s an “official Web Browser”. If you’re talking about Element, we just rewrote the mobile apps and fixed verification issues (although support for inbound verification will land nex
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback :) There's still a lot of polish (and features) planned out for Element X, so it should only get better! > I thought we agreed on “security key” for a while, but I do like this name better Yes, sorr
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by Arathorn 2y ago
well, they're all CC-BY-SA-4.0 (i think), so feel free to repost on peertube or wherever :)
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All Talks from the Matrix Conference(matrix.org)
40 points by Arathorn 2y ago|6 comments
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by Arathorn 2y ago
if you feel miffed, imagine how the Dendrite team feels, given the lack of funding which means it is on best-effort dev currently. if you’re interested in progress on Matrix, https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29
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by Arathorn 2y ago
fwiw roughly 50% of Matrix is on the matrix.org instance currently. we consider this a bug, but also prioritise ease of onboarding over decentralisation purity ideology.
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Matrix 2.0 Is Here(matrix.org)
61 points by Arathorn 2y ago|9 comments
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by Arathorn 2y ago
in terms of namespace collisions, beware https://www.river.build is already a thing
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by Arathorn 2y ago
if you’re talking about the matrix.org homeserver’s room directory - these rooms are strictly against our terms of use (section 6 of https://matrix.org/legal/terms-and-conditions/ ) and we shut them down, and these
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by Arathorn 2y ago
It’s possible you are running off stale data. At least on mobile, Element X is genuinely good. Element Web/Desktop has improved a lot too.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Thanks for the tipoff to look at 0xchat - it does remind me of where Matrix was about 8 years ago (in terms of maturity, speed of growth, features, etc). Good luck to them. In terms of Matrix having lost the support from the open source co
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup. the problem on the matrix.org website is a tradeoff between a very dry “this is a protocol”, like w3c.org - versus trying to give some more accessible use cases for people who expect to find an instant messaging network. the current wo
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Oh! Well, yes, Matrix itself would love to be a cosy safe supercharged place for your community (even if i’m not sure a protocol should describe itself like that tbh). Some clients like Cinny or FluffyChat are close to that. Element will al
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by Arathorn 2y ago
In their defence WMF have been an Element customer for years, for internal usage. But rolling out Matrix across a large community requires significant community management effort (e.g. what Mozilla did with https://discourse.mozi
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yeah. i'm not saying we've made the optimal choice here: for instance, we could have focused on growing mainstream usage at all cost without distractions of enterprise or govtech (similar to Bluesky), and assume that once we have
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by Arathorn 2y ago
So we do care about custom emoji, and they are obviously critical for folks looking for an encrypted Discord alternative. However, right now we're not focusing on building an encrypted Discord alternative but instead a self-hosted Wh
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> Are you telling me that with the multi-millions of dollars you get from law enforcement, you cannot delegate a manager to, as a minor part time duty, oversee the free work given to you? Correct. We are not profitable, and frantically t
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by Arathorn 2y ago
you do understand this is a global public network right? are you going to stop using the Web because a search engine links you to a spammy website?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
i swear people will keep complaining that we tried to do p2p and thirdroom decades after the projects were shelved.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
we spent all year fixing these and at least in Element X and other rust-sdk-crypto based apps like Element Web they should now be fixed.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
we’ve had to prioritise keeping the lights on by building stuff we can sell rather than merging custom emoji PRs. it’s a “please put on your own mask before helping others” kind-of thing. thanks for understanding…

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