Notices tagged with matrix

@rek2 you left out #Jami, which has a much more consistent #UX across platforms than #Tox (eg none of the Tox mobile apps I've tried support group chat). You also left out #BigBlueButton, which I keep hearing is much less of a resource hog on the server-side than #JitsiMeet, and I can confirm JM is a massive resource hog on the client-side. I haven't used #Discord but I've heard #Riot (#Matrix client) is a pretty good substitute?

@ssokolow it's a long and frustrating process and its not inevitable, but it's happening because thousands of people are putting in the work to make it happen.
* There's never been more interest in #federated and #P2P replacements for the #datafarms than there has been over the last year, nor more libre community-hosting services springing up.
* there is a #libPurple plugin for #Matrix: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix#readme
* Breaking the chip monopoly breaks the remains of the x86/Windows monopoly

@wyatwerp like the author said, FOAF was a product of a time when it was normal for most web users to have personal and professional homepages. I can't see how it would be helpful for chat, maybe for finding the chat address of a user by entering their email address or homepage? But you'd still need a chat app using a realtime protocol like #IRC, #XMPP, #Wave, #Matrix, or #WebRTC.
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@alcinnz

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo #AWS is a bad procurement choice, but it's just commodity hosting, not a software dependency. If you dig a bit you'll find that most of the fediverse is ultimately hosted on AWS, as are #Signal, #Wire, and if I remember rightly, #Matrix.org. I'm pretty sure this isn't the worst thing about any given service, Reddit included.

@cowan

@mark
> I've used Voip on #Matrix before

You mean you've used #VoIP on #Riot, yes? That's a workaround that connects to a centralized server on matrix.org (running #JitsiMeet I believe?), it's not actually federated. So a Signal-on-Matrix fork would have to either set up their own VoIP server (and figure out how to pay for it), or find a decentralized VoIP solution (which is why I suggested Jami).

#ShowerThoughts You know what would be cool? A domain registrar whose systems allowed me to use my domain name as an alias on federated networks like #Jabber, the #fediverse, and #Matrix, regardless of which server I actually used to connect to those networks at any given time.

@mark certainly can be done. After all the #Session folks forked the #Signal apps and rebuilt them to run on the #Loki #blockchain. I'd love to see someone do the same using #Matrix instead of Loki. Not sure how they'd do the voice/video chat, maybe using #Jami protocols? Session doesn't have realtime voice/video anyway.

@sqwishy hmmm. Maybe a self-hosted #Matrix server and apps like #Riot/ #RiotX would be a better federated replacement for #WhatsApp than Mastodon? I really hope #NewVector can resolve the remaining issues this year that still prevent them turning on encryption by default.

@michel_slm
> wondering how unfederated platforms like Signal will scale.

They already struggle. Using phone numbers as ID to frustrate spammers, despite the way that ties #Signal accounts to particular mobile devices/ cell phone account holders, is an example of the compromises they are making at current levels of use. Once #Matrix clients can turn encryption on by default without creating a #UX nightmare, Signal will be obsolete.

Want to get some hands-on experience with #FreeCode voice chat apps? Join the VOICE testing group! All welcome, play nice.

For now, join the #VOICE chat room using any #Matrix client (Riot, Pattle, miniVector etc):
#voicechat:matrix.org

I'd like to bridge that room to a #jabber #MUC, if anyone knows how and can help.

You can also follow the Hubzilla channel from any Zot or AP account, which will publish invitations to testing sessions, test reports etc:
https://hub.libranet.de/channel/voice