"invisible cryptography" I sure hope this isn't an empty promise. The number one gripe I have with matrix/element is the absolutely horrendous crypto dance they make you do.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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It's probably the number one reason I can't convince friends to move over, I know they would bawk at how it makes them do that on every device
I studied cryptography and I can't figure out how to do the dance right. I thought I did, but one of my contacts says they can't read any message I send them. And I can't message them to figure out why.
We haven't spoken since. Thanks Matrix.
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I had just uninstalled Element X like two weeks ago because I found it to under perform compared to the normal Element client on Android, in addition to lacking some features. I guess I'll give it another shot.
Update: WOW this thing feels lightning fast compared to just a few weeks ago. This is great. Not sure about feature completeness, but based on speed I think I'll migrate Element > Element X again. Great job to the team!
It hans't changed speedwise for me. It has been lightning fast since it's first release
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Still no Spaces support. Even the short list of rooms I've joined are unmanageable when listed flat with no way to identify which Space a #general belongs to
This is dependent on matrix-rust-sdk, when (if) it ends up supporting it, all apps using the SDK will be able to add support for spaces
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What do you mean by "spaces"?
It's the equivalent of discord servers
I can't use discord because they require phone numbers from users who use privacy tools.
What does this mean for people who don't use discord?
A space is a collection of rooms. So you have a clean list of spaces, then when you click into one of them it shows all the rooms that it contains. Without spaces, every single room is shown in one big list.
Spaces have nothing to do with Discord. They're just a way of grouping multiple Matrix rooms together into one "space" like how Discord channels are grouped into one "server."
A way to group organize discover and control access to multiple Rooms.
Here's an extra ironic Elements post describing them: https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/
I don’t like what I see in the iOS app stores privacy section for the app.
Element is able to use features called "Integration Manager" and "Identity Server". When using an Identity Server, you can choose to link name, email, and phone number to your Matrix account. When using an Integration Manager, there's a feature to share your location with others in chat.
As such, Vector discloses that they "collect this information", although (except some diagnostics), this is completely optional.
(I am not associated with Vector, just interested in Matrix)
Ah interesting ok. So basically even though it CAN link all of that info to you and such doesn't mean that it WILL if you opt out of things. Is that correct?
Even better.
It's opt-in instead of opt -out
Correct, Vector does not receive this information unless you willingly share it with them.
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The way permissions are listed on mobile operating these days is honestly pretty misleading.
For example, I know some apps that need to request network permission even though they don't need to connect to the internet. Not because they want to do anything shady, but because they legitably have to in order to get certain info.
Not to mention the problem of listing everything an app can do as if it is doing all of those things.
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Seriously, WTF?!
What do you find WTF about it?
That’s a lot of data collection.
That's the problem with how the app store presents privacy info: without context it's nearly meaningless. "may be collected". It's optional, but that's not show here. The Play store does show that these are all optional.
"Collected" is also a scary word here. Having my location "collected" sounds scary, but what it actually may mean is that I can optionally and explicitly share my location with a contact.
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I’m still sad they stopped work on dendrite. P2P level decentralization, with E2EE, would be amazing.
These are still great improvements though. I'm hyped that loading seems to be so much faster.
Not available on f droid yet it seems
~~https://f-droid.org/packages/io.element.android.x/~~
f-droid seems a few versions behind.
https://apkpure.com/element-x-secure-messenger/io.element.android.x/download
Schildi chat has SchildiNext on f-droid
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
The new release isn't out on F-Droid my friend, last updated 3 months ago as of this comment.
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Native OIDC support...something I wish more self hosted apps would prioritize. I shouldn't need to maintain a bunch of user account systems on my own servers.
Space support and multi account support and I'll install it. Fluffychat has many features but still laggy.
What's the difference between the normal app and element X? Why create a new app?
EDIT: I installed it, but can't verify for some reason.
EDIT: It works now, and it's very fast compared to the other client. It's a shame spaces aren't supported.
Normy here, I think it's a whole different framework which is faster and more reliable I think. Also the normal app technology outdated so maybe it's difficult to add new features to it.
Good ol' Rust Rewrite fixing everything.
Has anyone tried the new app?
I've been using the nightly releases for element X android for some time.
Sliding sync means messages are fetched quite a bit quicker, though it's not yet feature complete relative to regular element android.
I've not yet tested element call on EXA, however, but it's worked very nicely for me via web.
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Bombastic
We should probably stop arguing about Matrix vs XMPP and finally decide what to use or else we'll never move forward.
Which is largely whether or not the eventual consistency model or not is the route to take. Is the resilience for chat worth the explosion of storage & preformance cost of sync/search & maintaining all that data amongst all servers? Or is limited/functional sync without always duplicating the entire history with the occasional out-of-order message & missing old attachments good enough? Is ephemeral chat okay to save resources which in turn makes it more feasible to self-host on lower-end hardware or is it better to trust a couple big servers with massive storage who probably have admins?
Still waiting for an XMPP client to support threads
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