Arathorn

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by Arathorn 8mo ago
cool! would be even cooler to hook it up to https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/5350 when it should then just work? matui looks super fun - you should come tell https://matrix.to&#
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
this is me working with my users and trying to understand their firsthand experience for myself :)
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Hmmm. The main difference between the Matrix Fdn publishing a spec ( https://spec.matrix.org ) made out of Matrix Spec Changes ( https://spec.matrix.org/proposals ) versus IETF only publishing RFCs is simply that th
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
> Do Matrix clients still keep the oldest version of the Megolm ratchet they have ever received? When I last looked (around 2024), the libraries maintained by the Matrix.org core team did. It entirely depends on the client. There is noth
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
thanks. we are doing our best, despite various a few misadventures along the way :)
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Matrix should categorically not have any sync issues; this is not normal. Something bad must be happening on the server; what server are you using and how are you running it?
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Unencrypted room search should Just Work for unencrypted rooms (it uses postgres FTS under the hood). Encrypted room search should also Just Work... but only on Element Desktop (which uses tantivy to do clientside search). We are in the pr
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
We explicitly built Element X to be competitive with Telegram's UX - I'm guessing that the feedback here is on the crusty old Element Classic app, which hasn't been touched for 3 years now, and definitely did feel like a lagg
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
When we first announced Matrix 2.0 implementations in Sept 2024 we made a major error by not providing an easy distro, so I feel your pain. We fast-followed with https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm as a really easy
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
> Olm/Megolm does not offer forward secrecy for group messaging Megolm does provide forward secrecy - just in blocks of messages. If a message key gets stolen, an attacker could decrypt subsequent messages from that sending device u
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Element X finally has this on Android (in Labs) now. Web & iOS will follow.
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
it sounds like the hackspace server has been banned from inviting due to spam or something. can you share the name of the server so we can check? or mail abuse@matrix.org with the details.
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
this sounds like something super weird about the setup - it really should just work. what client and server was it?
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Element has put tens of millions of dollars into Matrix over the years and today provides hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of resources per year to support it. Amandine (acting managing dir on the fdn) is preparing the public financia
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
It wasn't France (and, ironically, it wasn't funded - it was mainly us showing off)
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
France donates to the Matrix Foundation (which helps the protocol retain its neutrality and independence, and is very much appreciated), but doesn't currently financially support Element's dev as their upstream. We're trying
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Manually importing/exporting keybackups is on the todo list (albeit towards the bottom). Supporting legacy calls is not (unless someone contributes it); the intention is to converge asap on native Matrix group calls.
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
yes, Element is venture-funded, which is where much of the money came to build all this in the first place - see the bottom of https://element.io/en/about .
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Probably, but much like the sitar player's sitar in Moulin Rouge, I aim to only speak the truth :)
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Element Desktop/Web (and Element X) use Element Call for proper encrypted group VoIP/Video these days rather than Jitsi - since Sept 2024. Meanwhile we're busy upgrading Element Web to use the same rust-sdk engine as Element
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
> It's far from perfect, but using a simple application with no built-in ads, AI, bloat, crap, etc is wonderful. I think there are three main reasons it's not perfect yet: 1. Building both a decentralised open standard (Matri
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Element Software SARL and Element Software GmbH however are not. In practice I believe it's Element Software GmbH providing the European Commission deployment of ESS. (Both are owned by the UK topco, but at the current rate we might fl
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
If you work with lots of other entities who want full control over their own comms (e.g. other governments, other departments, other EU entities like European Parliament and Council, the UN, NATO, etc) then decentralisation or federation is
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Speaking as the CEO/CTO of Element... the classic Element apps on mobile were buggy, thanks to being a ~10 year old codebase with no shared code between platforms and effectively the 1st generation Matrix client. Which is why we rep
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
talking about Teams, right? O:-)
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
When did you try it? Both Matrix the protocol and implementations like Element X have improved immeasurably over the last year or so.
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm (aka ESS Community) is Element’s FOSS distro fwiw.
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Element’s topco may be UK based for now, but the vast majority of our business and footprint is in the EU - https://element.io/en/about . All but one of our mobile app team is in the EU for instance (and when we started
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
it’s also not decentralised (unless you bridge it to Matrix), nor end-to-end-encrypted. or standards based.
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by Arathorn 8mo ago
Matrix is a decentralised encrypted chat protocol on which you could build something like Zulip, except decentralised and end-to-end encrypted. Element is the actual app being trialled here, which feels more like Slack and/or Signal th

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