Arathorn

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by Arathorn 2y ago
Element X is where all the effort is going, and should be working really well. How is msg handling broken?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Matrix literally aims to be the missing communication layer of the Web. Just as the Web won without a single app with a single brand for people to remember, Matrix will eventually succeed too.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Matrix is a protocol, not an app, and it's still evolving rapidly. Meanwhile, Element as an app is also evolving rapidly too. Totally agreed that the onboarding has been awful in the past, but we're plugging away improving it and
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by Arathorn 2y ago
fwiw, the ripping-apart here consisted of some legit implementation vulns in the ~8 year old first-gen clients (which were fixed prior to disclosure, obviously) - and one protocol question: should you warn users if a malicious server adds u
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Element looks as much like Slack as Keybase did…
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by Arathorn 2y ago
On the Matrix side, we explicitly didn't forklift the same library - we wrote our own cleanroom implementation from scratch, first in C/C++ as https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm and then in rust as htt
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Element (or Matrix in general) hasn’t been cut out. The comment might be thinking about https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store but it got reverted after we explained what decentralisation was to Google. I
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> If you compare Matrix the foundation/company, they are VC funded (the foundation is a bit of a sham after community pressure, it's all the same people and accounts controlling it, This not true. Element (the company set up by
519.
by Arathorn 3y ago
Rooms in Matrix are hosted on every server who participates in them - just because the alias is #somewhere:matrix.org doesn’t mean that if matrix.org goes down the room disappears. However, user accounts aren’t portable yet, sadly. So the p
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by Arathorn 3y ago
https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/339#issuec... is another facet, too.
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by Arathorn 3y ago
What are you thinking of here? Synapse has supported purging room history since 2016: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/911 , and configurable data retention since 2019: https://github.com&
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by Arathorn 3y ago
It seems like the original post may be just a little biased against Matrix in favour of XMPP ;) Matrix has been going strong for 10 years, and while it's true that the Matrix.org Foundation (and Element) need funding (c.f. https:&#x2F
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by Arathorn 3y ago
p2p matrix (arewep2pyet.com) doesn’t depend on DNS. Unsure why a distributed ledger like a blockchain would be needed for DNS independence :)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
fwiw, https://element.io/labs/element-x is Element’s attempt to spell out that we our priorities are absolutely going towards UX. Meanwhile the old Element apps aren’t improving because all our (limited) bandwidth is
525.
by Arathorn 3y ago
Stuff like https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/wordpress-com-owner-automa... implies that some folks are betting on Matrix having more traction sooner ;)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
As soon as we have any money to pay someone to work on it, hence the point of this whole post(!!)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
to be clear: in the blog post I wasn’t remotely proposing that governments should determine the technical details of the projects to be funded. But instead the projects which empirically support public infrastructure can apply for maintena
528.
by Arathorn 3y ago
There's a surprising amount of good info here about very first IRISes. I ended up with 3 of the very first IRIS 1400 workstations mentioned in the post which NASA Ames bought; at least one of which is still in working order. They were
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Yup - XMPP clearly has a lot of public sector traction too (e.g. in NATO's Federated Mission Networking), and each protocol has its merits. I was just trying to explain that the current "how can Governments better fund Matrix&quot
530.
by Arathorn 3y ago
Yup. No question that UX is critical for Matrix, and many clients are racing to fix that right now.
531.
by Arathorn 3y ago
> Making an analogy to physical infrastructure: it would be crazy if we relied on groups of hobbyists to build a bridge, or if we just grabbed a bridge directly out of somebody’s PhD in civil engineering. Except this is precisely what is
532.
by Arathorn 3y ago
hey, this is my blog post. I wouldn't expect public money to be routed to Matrix (or Mastodon or similar projects) without the funder having input into the governance of the project, just as any other funder would. https://m
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> e: To the downvoters, do you seriously believe that Tesla, Apple, MSFT, Amazon, etc require MORE government assistance? This is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just because big tech companies happen to build on FOSS pro
534.
by Arathorn 3y ago
Almost certainly. Which is why it's crazy to not be publicly funded to protect against that sort of thing.
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> Why we would we fund Matrix when XMPP and IRC already exists? Because empirically Matrix is what governments appear to be using - e.g. https://tchap.beta.gouv.fr/ for France; https://messenger.bwi.de/bu
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by Arathorn 3y ago
I dunno; if an open source project wants to take public sector funding, then some kinds of public sector oversight (e.g. public sector requiring security audits, or SBOMs, etc which they pay for ) could be very desirable indeed. If your im
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Speaking from the Matrix side: it would definitely be preferable to have a large reliable source of funding for public sector Matrix deployments rather than juggling between loads of small overlapping ones (especially when they end up faili
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Perhaps try Matrix again? Element as a client might feel a bit sterile but the content is often anything but sterile, plus there are loads of other great clients too (Cinny, FluffyChat, Nheko, Fractal, NeoChat and more).
539.
by Arathorn 3y ago
speaking as the project lead for Matrix: I haven’t done a great job of balancing “build new stuff to show off how amazing Matrix can be” and “make current stuff super polished and amazing”. However, we’ve spent the last few years plugging a
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by Arathorn 3y ago
historically Matrix has been painfully slow, but these days Matrix 2.0 is in dev which outperforms Discord & co. https://matrix.org/blog/2023/09/matrix-2-0/ has more details

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