Why not? What is missing?.
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kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 months agoI do love the idea of matrix, but it’s definitely not a direct replacement for whatsapp, sadly.
Petter1@lemm.ee 7 months ago
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 months 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.
Petter1@lemm.ee 7 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
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Good to hear cross signing is now easier. I remember it was real PITA.
Hexagon@feddit.it 7 months ago
Why not? I never tried it so I don’t know the details
maggio@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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
Petter1@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You can set up some bridges until you have convinced others to use matrix as well (Btw. Matrix is NATO approved 😝)
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, you can do a lot of things with Matrix, unless you want to post a gif, lol. The main problem is it’s still far from being as user friendly as those like Messenger, Whatsapp or Telegram. Typical user doesn’t really care about its privacy upper hand or it being federated, typical user see it’s too complicated and nobody uses it, so he’ll pass on it too. Which is sad.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How do you even search for it. What’s it called ? Matrix brings up the film franchise
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 months 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?
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 7 months 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 ?
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s not hard to use, but it’s not as “idiotproof” like whatsapp or messenger. Once you have it installed and created account somewhere like matrix.org, it’s quite simple.
Main benefit is you’re not feeding advertisment privacy intruding behemots with your data by using matrix.
Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
find out more here
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Link gives me error messages
Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What are you using to browse lemmy?
In any case I was trying to link to matrix.org