Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de]

I do, use Signal if you care about privacy. They are the only game in town when it comes to reasonably secure chat software. Sure, I would prefer a federated alternative but I haven't found one yet that is always end-to-end encrypted, open source, implements forward secrecy, and is user friendly enough to be used by my grandmother.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

I can't find its libre software licence text file.

[exhaust_fan@lemmy.world]

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

SimpleX is better, you don't even need a phone number.

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

Because atm is the most adopted alternative but isn't any better then SimpleX.

[syrc@lemmy.world]

[dicjacobus@lemmy.world]

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

Email is a shitty protocol we should abandon

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

The best number-free protocol is SimpleX atm

[phx@lemmy.ca]

Friendica seems like a new thing? No apps for that yet either

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

It's been here the a long time actually

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

matrix too has contact discovery, if you add your phone number (or email). most users don't, and that tells me something

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

or they can also disable submitting issues for now

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

anti? is it against libre software? because it doesn't seem so

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

sender, recipient, chatroom, what kind of event you sent (message, emoji, reaction, vote), if you responded to a message, room privilege changes, etc

but it's a question how big of a problem is that. they want to tackle it in the future, but that's far away for now I think

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

Matrix still lacks some signature fearures of discord that its users like, like one-click voice channels (I heard Element is experimenting with it with video) and guild/channel-level roles. role based access control is being planned for a long time, but it doesn't really go forward unfortunately

[stevo887@lemmings.world]

I saw someone suggest Yandex as a Google substitute in de-Google thread recently...lol

[jollyrogue@lemmy.ml]

Matrix servers keep a copy of any remote room an account on the server has joined, and it’s possible to recreate a room from the copies held on different servers. There are more details I don’t remember, but at a high level that’s how it’s distributed.

Storing messages of remote rooms in addition to local rooms is why people complain about the storage requirements of Matrix servers. They don’t realize it’s distributed.