Comment on What are your opinions on Matrix?
mister_monster@monero.town 1 year ago
Meh, I use it. I’ll take it over Discord or Telegram any day. But I don’t use it for anything that may be sensitive or anything involving IRL people.
It’s leaky. If I set my own stuff up, I prefer XMPP, and increasingly Simplex. If some project uses matrix, I have an account and will talk to them there.
Overall I’m not a fan, but I don’t outright hate it.
ninchuka@lemmy.one 1 year ago
You don’t have to give them your phone number to be searchable, just use your matrix ID
mister_monster@monero.town 1 year ago
No, to be searchable by your friends you have to attach your matrix ID to your phone number and upload it to an identity server, which anyone can run of course but which is useless unless its the new vector identity server. It’s a central database of verified matrix IDs.
dngray@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Yes, this is FUD, it’s not necessary, and entirely opt-in. Also you don’t even need to connect to the identity server.
mister_monster@monero.town 1 year ago
Yeah, you don’t have to. But to be able to easily prove you are who you are to IRL people you will. And the decision tells you something about the product and protocol design.
ninchuka@lemmy.one 1 year ago
you dont, users can find me just fine without sending my phone number to an idenity server, please stop spreading FUD
mister_monster@monero.town 1 year ago
OK… Google “matrix identity server” since you don’t know what I’m trying to say.