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Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do love the idea of matrix, but it’s definitely not a direct replacement for whatsapp, sadly.

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  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you even search for it. What’s it called ? Matrix brings up the film franchise

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is just part of the problem. Matrix is the network, but clients you use are dozens with different names like Element, FluffyChat, Neochat, Fractal, heck even Thunderbird supposedly supports Matrix. And then a huge problem with this is not every client supports every Matrix function. Like end to end encryption? Half of the clients doesn’t even support this main selling point.

      Does anyone else get XMPP/jabber vibes from this? Wasn’t this part of why jabber never really got adopted en masse?

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      • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So is it user friendly to non devs ? I haven’t been able to find information regarding it.

        Any suggestions for using matrix ? Is it useful or nah ?

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    • Chouxfleur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      find out more here

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      • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Link gives me error messages

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why not? What is missing?.

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s more like Slack than Whatsapp IMO. It’s not so streamlined and using it on multiple devices is definitely mainly for tinkers. Or at least it was couple years ago. That cross signing through devices was everything but intuitive.

      And THE feature everyone I know misses the most is giphy/tenor support, which is kind of dumb, but also really understandable. This and similar nice to have features are still lacking.

      Is Matrix better for the users privacy? Definitely yes! But is it better user experience? Well, kind of almost, but not yet.

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cross signing is easy now, ether scan a QR code, or compare emojis. Multi device on Matrix is even better than WhatsApp, signal etc. because you are not forced having at least one android or iOS phone running the main instance but all instances are the same level, same like in telegram. Having threats is superior to what whatsapp offers (no threats) Well, I’m not a gif sender, so I never recognized that gif is not supported

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  • Hexagon@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why not? I never tried it so I don’t know the details

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    • maggio@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because exactly 2 peopleI know have matrix users.

      I still use it, and refuse to use Whatsapp, but it takes some effort to get people over to the beautiful FOSS-side

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can set up some bridges until you have convinced others to use matrix as well (Btw. Matrix is NATO approved 😝)

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