Few of my friends decided to leave the Facebook and it's Messenger or Whatsapp apps. 👍 But they also decided to move to other proprietary and closed software like Signal.👎 Please if you make this brave decision, choose wisely. Something decentralized and open like #XMPP or #Matrix. 🙏 These are not apps, these are protocols witch many apps can use. You can than choose app you like. For example on Andorid there is Conversations or Snikket for xmpp, or Element for Matrix...
Congrats to #matrix co-founder @matthew for rocking the last #DMAWorkshop, there was still quite a bit of buzz about how the live bridging demo carried a ton of weight, despite the lobbying efforts from #Meta, you can see it at around 14:00 in the live stream recording webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-works…
If you're interested in talking or collaborating with contributors to the Fedora Project, this is how you can join the conversation!
We have @matrix channels bridged to IRC for real time chat. We have the Fedora Discussion forum for long form conversations.
Both can be accessed with a Fedora account you can create, but Matrix is also available from other accounts since it is federated. #Fedora #Matrix #Discourse
The #Mastodon server and #Matrix homeserver don't have to be colocated. E.g. you could be on mymastodon.example.com and hook it up to your matrix a/c on matrix.org. The larger #ActivityPub instances could use a small Matrix homeserver for it users without a declared matrix address, and automatically create a matrix a/c for them for the sole purpose of DMing.
The architectural possibilities are quite wide, I suspect.
and while we don't have that, people could use a service that gives them an unified account for both #matrix and #mastodon instances, like communick.com. #shamelessplug
It brings many improvements to the markdown input, user search for the invite dialog and lots of fixes and improvements! Check it out here: github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/…
(Nheko is a #matrix client, if you know what that means!)
Highlights
Improved Markdown input 🗒️
You can now enter strike-through and spoilers using ~~ and ||
respectively.
Single line-breaks now also create a line-break in the formatted message.
Code ta...
The #matrix 2.0 #fosdem talk was 🔥. Besides the new ElementX client being both slick 💅 and fast 🏎️, I was impressed by the seamless p2p messaging without internet. I like to see cool tech combined with slick UX.
For those of you wondering what I’m talking about, matrix is a federated messaging platform with end to end encryption and all the stuff you’d want from an open messaging platform.
With 6 years of operation, t2bot.io is finally seeking donations formally to offset increasing costs and reduce the impact it has on the Matrix.org Foundation.
If t2bot.io has been useful to you, and you're able to donate, please consider donating today: t2bot.io/donations
This presentation on everything happening with @matrix is seriously mind-blowing. They're doing some absolutely phenomenal development work, and I have a feeling that the server / client experience is about to get way, way better.
NOTE: we'll update the FOSDEM 2023 playlist as we gather all the talks. Stay tuned for more Matrix content.
This video was recorded during FOSDEM 2023, and can also be found here: https://fosdem.
#fosdem Update Tag 2: Schade! Schon ist der zweite Tag vorbei.. Damit wir auch nur irgendwie mit dem straffen Zeitplan zurechtkommen konnten, saßen wir zwischenzeitlich einfach in Hörsaal A und haben uns per #Livestream in Hörsaal B eingeklinkt (wie die anderen knapp 20.000 Unique Viewers).
I have - intentionally - installed a whole mess of #Matrix clients on various devices, and quite pleased with their interoperability, especially in terms of end-to-end encryption.
Element web client in Firefox
Gomuks terminal-based client on Linux (works on my aarch64 Pinebook Pro)
Nheko GUI client on Linux
Element on Android
FluffyChat on Android
I have not much to add apart from the fact they… just work 👍 Just to clarify my testing criteria: I’m using these devices for daily work so have little tolerance for inconvenient user interfaces or crashing, but I have lots of tolerance for aesthetics, emojis etc.
This is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush.
Android Name Description Date Platform Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 Android v0.26.
I have redesigned the chat encryption settings. It now shows a clear indicator if and why the chat is encrypted or not. It also shows a prominent verification button. User verification is now the default. Below you see a list of the device keys with their verification state. There you can also block devices if you like with a simple toggle
The changes include: - testing full features against all homeservers (#Synapse, #Conduit & #Dendrite) - normalize the app's behavior independent of platform (currently Android FLOSS, Android proprietary and Linux supported) - set of built-in helpers in order to simplify user login, logout or bootstrap processes in all future test cases
Platform-specific workarounds just took around 30 h of work.
Since the last few official #Matrix holiday updates didn't mention as many of the cool community projects as I would have liked, I tried to work with the community to publish a community side review of 2022 as well as possibly some small teasers of what 2023 will bring. There are a lot of very varied updates, since everyone seems to have tackled the challenge differently, but I hope you you enjoy the result as much as I did: blog.neko.dev/posts/matrix-yea…
@morph @Matrix.org #libQuotient a library #quaternion is using for its #matrix support has recently been updated with e2e support in beta. I think quaternion will get it too
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
Someone publishes few pieces manually on @matrix. Not consistently, but I think they are doing steps in the direction of migrating here wholeheartedly, just not so fast. If you really want to hear from *human* human, find individual devs of #Matrix on #Mastodon and look how they are doing.
These are great tidings, #Matrix! Citing the best part:
"In France, for example, the civil service uses a Matrix-based collaboration platform called #Tchap. It means civil servants using Tchap in France could in future easily federate with those using #BundesMessenger in Germany’s public administration. Both sides remain in their respective country-specific apps, and yet still benefit from the end-to-end encryption, data sovereignty and #interoperability provided by Matrix."
I sigh every time I see decent open source project resorting to #Discord instead of #Matrix for chat opportunities. I think your video channel needs to post something like "Matrix is very limited: #DEBUNKED".
Loving the way you present it by the means of #Thirdroom itself with presentation overlay and explain that the only server needed is #Matrix!
That aside, I just hope it'll show more than repurposing Thirdroom for meetings in the future, because no amount of simulated physics and emopacks can supercede human interaction. 🙋 🙋♂️ 🙋♀️
Tyler and Matt discuss Eufy's security issues and their horrid response, Mozilla's continued attempts to do things other than make a good browser, and some exciting stuff from XFCE!
👇 PULL IT DOWN FOR...
#XMPP or 
#Matrix. 🙏
