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• 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.

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  • 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

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good to hear cross signing is now easier. I remember it was real PITA.

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