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So host it yourself. It's literally designed to do that.
Yeah, that's great for me, but doesn't help me when everyone else is using the hosted stuff :)
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I find no issue that the company is working with law-enforcement to provide secure communications. In fact this makes me feel better about the security of those communications as they are trusted by these governments (not that this is a huge mark of quality, but I would consider it positive). I your distrust of law-enforcement so strong that any company that they purchase from must be untrustworthy? Or is there anoth…
My concern is in the opposite direction of what everyone appears to be interpreting, despite what I thought was clear wording in my initial post. It's not that govt/LE uses Matrix. It's that Matrix/Element actively seeks out partnership with govt/LE (to the extent of presenting on stage at a police conference), suggesting they are particularly interested in a relationship with authorities and personally sympathetic t…
Hopefully, eventually, the rest of the world will wake up to the fact that sleepwalking into using Teams and Slack (or WhatsApp) is a catastrophe in the making. It's only a matter of time before someone publishes a torrent of every line of Teams scrollback or Slack scrollback for some high-profile organisation; the breach has probably already happened; the breacher is just waiting for the best strategic moment to drop the information bomb.
But until then, Element makes payroll by selling to folks like the French and German Governments, the United Nations, etc. They pick Element because it is high trust, and they can audit it and run it themselves. And there is categorically no way that I or other senior management at Element would destroy the company (let alone Matrix) by breaking that trust by letting someone undermine its privacy.
Which is why we're in the surreal situation of on one hand selling to the UK Government, while also frantically criticising them for the catastrophic idiocy of the Online Safety Bill: https://element.io/blog/the-online-safety-bill-an-attack-on-....
Separately: I'm literally years overdue in publishing Element's internal ethics guidelines publicly, which spells out precisely who we do and don't do business with. For what it's worth, the high level summary is:
* We don't sell to criminals (under UK/US/EU law)
* We don't sell to sanctioned (by UK/US/EU) or abusive govts or organisations
* We don't sell to orgs who explicitly encourage use which goes against our terms of service.
Most western governments (including their police forces) do not fall into this bracket.
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Because the API is still evolving, and it's also useful that it supports other homeservers than Synapse. It's also written by an entirely different bunch of people (it's effectively written by the Dendrite team rather than the Synapse team). Once the API is stable I'm sure all the homeservers will implement it natively. Until then, think of it like a reverse-proxy that lets an HTTP/1 webapp talk HTTP/2 to the outside…
> it's effectively written by the Dendrite team rather than the Synapse team I would then ask why it isn’t integrated into Dendrite
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Well you can just wait. But the proxy is really lightweight and doesn't require maintenance.
Until there's an incompatibility, upgrade, exposure, memory overflow, or some other security issue/exploit. Unless you're saying that it's immune to everything and will never experience a change or issue.
but apart from that I of course love the idea of an „SMTP approach“ to instant messaging :)
my biggest struggle with matrix, is that, at least in element-ios, messages keep transpositioning, i.e. at some random time a message that is 2 days old is pushed all the way down to the new messages. also the aop frequently crashes with some media. but apart from that I of course love the idea of an „SMTP approach“ to instant messaging :)
I always get so confused by the naming between Matrix and Element. I get that Element is the client, but I honestly thought that the name Matrix for the server (or is it just the standard for the protocol?) was sunset. Great service though and hope if gets UX improvements too, as Discord and Slack keep getting more clutter.
Lock it to the matrix.org server and offer membership in the foundation as an in-app purchase. Could help with some of their recent funding issues.
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wtf is going on is that: a) p2p matrix works pretty well as a proof of concept - you can try it from https://arewep2pyet.com ; it’s not remotely vapourware. b) funding has been spent on core Matrix dev and making Element kick ass (cf Element X) c) an awful lot of very large Matrix + Element deployments (eg LuxChat in Luxembourg, Merkury 2.0 in the Polish MOD, many German local authorities) decide to run Matrix deploy…
Thanks Matthew, I always appreciate your comments. I also do appreciate the Apache license. Sorry for the vapourware comment. It's hard to tell these days. Was the Google self-driving car thing vapourware? It never went anywhere. I know that pinecone worked as a PoC. I ran a node for years, for fun. It's just that it always felt like the progress was crazy slow. The yggdrasil demo was what, 4 years ago? How fucked up…
Rip matrix p2p. I wonder if they were serious about it, or if it was just vaporware (a la Musk) to get more funding. It has been announced years ago, they raised millions and they have big governments contracts. WTF is going on?
wtf is going on is that: a) p2p matrix works pretty well as a proof of concept - you can try it from https://arewep2pyet.com ; it’s not remotely vapourware. b) funding has been spent on core Matrix dev and making Element kick ass (cf Element X) c) an awful lot of very large Matrix + Element deployments (eg LuxChat in Luxembourg, Merkury 2.0 in the Polish MOD, many German local authorities) decide to run Matrix deploy…
(I mean by society not new vector)
I'm curious if someone could build a discord replacement on top of matrix, most importantly with voice chat and video streaming functionality. Discord is clearly focused on monetization at this point, the only changes happening now are ones that make your experience objectively worse. I've also been on Linux for a few years now and discord still doesn't support streaming game audio. And before someone suggests it, I…