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I have moved my communications to SimpleX for very similar reasons.
I always found Matrix to be extremely clunky because of key management for rooms and stuff like that.
I’m used to using cryptocurrencies. I know how to manage keys, and yet I was constantly getting hit with the same issues with decryption of old messages, even when I properly saved my keys and imported them.
I figure if I’m not even able to use this thing properly, knowing and understanding technology, how do I expect people I talk to to understand how to do it properly?
Then, on top of that, I found out about all the metadata leaking to your home server. Sure, your communications might be encrypted, but if the sender, receiver, reactions, timestamp, etc. is not encrypted, that’s not good.
I still have it on my device, but it very rarely gets opened anymore.
Object@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This one is probably one of the most disappointing one; Matrix had everything I wanted. All it was an encrypted JSON sender/receiver, but in a good way. It basically could be extended however you want feature-wise since it provided a useful primitive. But the encryption just randomly fails, and it’s hard to figure out why, and eventually gave up on building a side project for it.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 days ago
Your name gave me a chuckle. Yeah its unfortunate.
Object@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Just a little bit of trolling’
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 days ago
what does it mean ?
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Same here - the encryption issues killed my project too, the problem is that Matrix’s OLM/Megolm protocol implementation doesn’t handle device verification and key distribution robustly enugh across multiple clients.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Right. It’s not like other services have implemented it better though, or is there any? I don’t think we should punish them for trying to do it in a more usable way than with signal
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 days ago
i definitely encountered this in the past but element has constantly improved for my self hosted situation