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ElementX is *so* much faster than the current stable versions of Element and its various soft forks (I'm currently using SchildiChat).

As I've said before, I'm guessing it will take another 6-12 months for all the Matrix 2.0 upgrades to be rolled out and fully stabilized in the various app and server software. But if ElementX performance is anything to go by, the new and improved Matrix ecosystem will be well worth an open-minded test.

How does one ban all accounts from an entire home server from joining their #Matrix rooms?

I found this doc that talks about "ban lists" but it seems like we have to run some separate bot to do this? matrix.org/docs/communities/mo

@matrix ... help please ?? 😅

matrix.orgCommunity ModerationMatrix allows communities to stay safe thanks to moderation tools. Mjolnir is the recommended solution for community managers who want to fight abuse on Matrix.
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@Xeniax Totally nerdsniped :D I'd love to be a part of the study.

I don't think that #KeyServers are dead. I think they evolved into Verifying Key Servers (VKS), like the one run by a few folks from the OpenPGP ecosystem at keys.openpgp.org/about . More generally, I believe that #PGP / #GPG / #OpenPGP retains important use-cases where accountability is prioritized, as contrasted with ecosystems (like #Matrix, #SignalMessenger) where deniability (and Perfect Forward Secrecy generally) is prioritized. Further, PGP can still serve to bootstrap those other ecosystems by way of signature notations (see the #KeyOxide project).

Ultimately, the needs of asynchronous and synchronous cryptographic systems are, at certain design points, mutually exclusive (in my amateur estimation, anyway). I don't think that implies that email encryption is somehow a dead-end or pointless. Email merely, by virtue of being an asynchronous protocol, cannot meaningfully offer PFS (or can it? Some smart people over at crypto.stackexchange.com seem to think there might be papers floating around that can get at it: crypto.stackexchange.com/quest).

To me, the killer feature of PGP is actually not encryption per se. It's certification, signatures, and authentication/authorization. I'm more concerned with "so-and-so definitely said/attested to this" than "i need to keep what so-and-so said strictly private/confidential forever and ever." What smaller countries like Croatia have done with #PKI leaves me green with envy.

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@quinta ho sentito il tuo intervento a 2024. Sull'uso in azienda di #Nextcloud e #matrix: in ditta abbiamo provato NC, ma stiamo passando a MS😩 a causa delle problematiche di NC. Diverse app sono di qualità alpha e non sono a conoscenza di un provider che ti gestisca il servizio, curandosi di tenerlo up. Sei tu che devi accorgerti di problemi e aprire ticket. Qui sta la grande differenza con i colossi cloud. Anche la collaborazione va in crisi con tot persone, corruzione di dati.

I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.

However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.

I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.

PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.

Okay, so here's a #matrix / #synapse question that I am far too tired to find the answer to:

If i have more than one user on my server, and they both go to a room, do I store duplicates of t hat room, one for each user? Or is it stored on my homeserver in such a way that both can grab it and decrypt it?

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P.S. I recommend everyone encrypts all their communications. I recommend using Element Client to do this. Good Luck

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Inderdaad naast privacy is beschikbaarheid ook een belangrijk punt en dat is bij signal met zijn centrale US hosters geen goed voorbeeld.

#Matrix bestaat niet bekend om zijn zuinige servergebruik. #deltachat en #xmpp zijn dat wel. Bij grote groepen chatgebruikers ook een belangrijk punt. Ik denk niet dat de meeste gebruikers zullen willen gaan betalen voor chat diensten.

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@duuk @bitsoffreedom Nóg n reden om niet met elkaar hier in europa niet Signal maar b.v. #element / #matrix te gaan gebruiken. Daar speelt ook dat probleem niet.

Begrijp me goed, de massale overstap naar Signal is een stap in de goede richting, maar niet de oplossing waar we uiteindelijk moeten zijn.

Naast jouw bezwaar, is het niet federatief, en wel volledig gevestigd in de VS. Dus erg kwetsbaar voor ons hier.

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