@warzazel I use sandboxed google play exclusively for bank and Garmin connect, all other app are on my personal profile, I do not like Viber, but it is necessary because of my work. all other app are FOSS, and the social network is #mastodon and #matrix #grapheneos
I really really REALLY want to use all the awesome privacy friendly FOSS (and similar) stuff, but I am not a techie person! I don't know how to program, nor do I want to.
And every SINGLE time I try to find out even what thing (OS, program, app, service, etc) to use, let alone how, and I search for it... I get techie-focused answers.
It's complete gibberish to me! Absolutely useless. It makes me feel actively unwelcome even though I really care about using alternatives to Windows, Meta, X and other dystopic nonsense.
For example: I'm like "How do I start a non-enshittified group chat to talk about a thing?" and all the results are technobabble to me. I don't even know if the words they use are supposed to be normal english words or if they refer to orgs or groups or apps or some weird coding wizardry.
I am so lost, every single time.
I stick with it though. But like. I wonder if the tech people realise that this is happening???? Because they probably understand what they're talking about. And they seem to not realise that not everyone does.
I'm not trying to blame or shame anyone or even complaining as such (a little bit complaining, ngl), mostly just giving feedback. This is not an issue with a singe thing but with ALL of it as a whole! Including #GNU #Linux the #Fediverse #Matrix and most #FOSS apps.
My sincere wish: Give non-techie people an EASY TO FIND and easy to read and easy to understand and easy to implement guide about how to use the things as an alternative to using big corporation services, ie, "I just want it to work" and not have to worry about the technical side of things. (examples in thread)
Countering toxicity and fake takes is not just a technical question (moderation, admins etc) but one of social curation both collectively and privately: which people and groups do you/we trust for what. No tool can automate that.
#deltachat is for private e2ee messaging and mutually curated group chats, and not random social media propelled onboarding. We are with #Signal here and not with #simplex and #matrix who offer public anonymous discovery of large chat groups with lots of unknown folks.
La Direction interministérielle du numérique annonce mardi devenir le premier État partenaire de la Fondation Matrix, qui est derrière le protocole open source qui fait fonctionner Tchap, la messagerie instantanée sécurisée des agents publics.
TIL that the president of Signal believes that people who run Mastodon and/or Matrix servers do so "in most cases" on hyperscaler* infrastructure.
This is my Mastodon server. And its UPS. And its networked KVM for when things get really hairy.
It's also my Matrix server. And Nextcloud. And Git. And Home-Assistant. And Jellyfin. And SearXNG. And Peertube.
When people objected to her claims, she doubled down and proclaimed condescendingly that we "don't have a clear understanding of this space".
TIL that I don't feel confident in recommending people to use Signal. Something's very off here.
*) "hyperscaler" basically means the big cloud infra providers with provisioning APIs that allow you to scale your resources up/down automatically with usage
An anonymous reader shares a report: After last week's major AWS outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app's reliance on big tech.
La @dinum soutient (financièrement et techniquement) la fondation @matrix. #Matrix est un protocole de messagerie instantanée libre et décentralisé, utilisé par #Tchap, la messagerie de l'administration française.
La Direction interministérielle du numérique annonce mardi devenir le premier État partenaire de la Fondation Matrix, qui est derrière le protocole open source qui fait fonctionner Tchap, la messagerie instantanée sécurisée des agents publics.
Draupnir call for participation: reviewing the last development cycle and affirming the project direction
If you value the work that we do on the Draupnir project and think that it is important then we need to hear from you.
We are trying something new where we provide a short update and reflection about the project and an interactive vote where you can affirm contributors about the project direction.
icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done
quick heads up. Our impressions: #matrix is going strong with public sector entities, and it's where most dynamics happened at the conf.
We are rather focused on private and resilient messaging where servers don't play a big role; as we want #chatmail relays to be dirt cheap to operate, no pro version needed. Our focus is on informal usage, groups, family, friends, affinity or interest groups, whereas matrix is increasingly focusing on corporate/ organizational use cases. YMMV
Hey, did you know that Movim allows you to link your #Discord, #Telegram, #WhatsApp and #Matrix accounts to your main XMPP one and chat with all your contacts in one integrated platform? 🤩
We are working hard with @nicoco to ensure a perfect integration with the Slidge gateways project slidge.im/ 🥸🤝🥸
Message synchronization, reactions, stickers, GIFs, chatrooms, invitations, file transfer... you can now find all those exciting features fully working across all your linked accounts in Movim ✨.
Now you can move to #XMPP while staying in contact with all your friends. 👌
Try it out on mov.im/ or by deploying your own instance 😸!
Venue clean, all remaining items packed. Good-bye Kaleidoscoop, thanks a lot to all volunteers, the @matrix foundation, our sponsors, our speakers and my friends @thibaultamartin and @HarHarLinks for rocking the #MatrixConf2025.
Another cool feature of #XMPP are "gateways" that make it relatively easy to connect with other IMs. e.g. #Libervia to #ActivityPub and #email (CC @Goffi )
Not related to the outage, really, this morning I found myself searching for federated IM protocols, ideally end-to-end encrypted. I know we have @matrix but was looking for something more DM-oriented like Signal, but federated.
Looked into XMPP, but E2E encryption relies on add-ons. It seems the closest we have to that is actually #Matrix.
We had an amazing after show gathering with the activists from @hackstub after a successful last evening of the #MatrixConf2025. It was an interesting exchange, we learned a lot about your work and it was super pleasant to network with other hackers sharing our vision and values we bear as the ecosystem.
Now time to catch some sleep before rocking the last conference day.
Join us for the Matrix Conference from October 15 to 18, 2025. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
My talks at #MatrixConf2025 are tomorrow 14:00 CET and 16:00 CET. I am talking about our progress on "Invisible Crypto" and agreeing a shared terminology to talk about Matrix encryption. Watch live at conference.matrix.org/watch/ . Recordings will be available later too.
Just booked the train ticket to #Strasbourg for the #matrix conference 15-18 Oct. Check out the schedule: 2025.matrix.org/schedule/#full… @fairkom is a silver sponsor of the matrix foundation and will present their experiences deploying SchulchatRLP for half a million pupils, teachers and parents on Sat Oct 18th 10:00. The greatest challenges were syncing users and groups from a central IDM and building a #kubernetes cluster on premises. @matrix
Whether you want to hear how an organization deployed Matrix at scale or learn what the engineers are doing to improve the protocol, the Matrix Conference has a track for you.
La Contre-Voie lance un nouveau service de messagerie instantanée, qui incorpore également une plateforme de visioconférence ! 🎉
Basé sur le logiciel Element, développé par la fondation #Matrix, ce service constitue une alternative à Microsoft Teams ou Slack ✨ lacontrevoie.fr/blog/2025/nouv…
Beeindruckend finde ich den lebendigen und vielfältigen Austausch in den #Matrix Räumen von @librechurch@kirche.social auf synod.im Von Fragen und Ideen zu digital souveränen Tools, die auf dem Marktplatz diskutiert werden bis zu Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen immer kleiner werdender christlicher Gemeinden im Raum Glauben teilen.
First of all: Thank you for your work! I use it on Android alongside with other #Matrix Clients. So far I remember, the onboarding was good. Generelly it feels fast (after) sync. The chatlist items, for me, could have a little bit more padding. The gui with the bubble style in the Chats I don't like much. It's nice to have some settings for gui. The accent color could have more options.
