Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

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• ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s good news. Hopefully it will gain traction among individuals as well as a viable Discord alternative

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used to roll on the main matrix server, but I’ve been toying with the idea of rolling out a server for just myself here at home for a while now, since I can federate with other servers. Just disable making new accounts after I set up my own account and roll out.

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    • anytimesoon@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you want to host your own matrix server, I can’t recommend this project enough https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

      Super easy to run and configure. And makes managing it a breeze

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• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t understand the matrix hype. It has never worked for me. Every server is just perma loading / syncing. It’s so slow.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Matrix sucks pretty bad at federation. But if you run a single closed server internally it works just fine.

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    • yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, is that why everyone hates matrix so much? I’ve been rocking it for years for me and my wife to communicate. It’s been pretty solid. Calls/video calls are hit and miss, but the chat has been great. I’ve never federated it. Account creation is locked down, local auth, etc.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I like Matrix, but it definitely lacks refinement and isn’t particularly user-friendly.

    I think of it a bit as being the Linux of messaging platforms.

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• call_me_xale@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I haven’t been following Matrix development too closely, but last I heard, both the protocol and the reference implementation had serious flaws, including gaping security holes. As in, issues that couldn’t be overcome without a clean-slate redesign. Did they somehow manage to salvage something useable?

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  • yes@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Got any more info on what you heard? There were problems in their Olm library (certain vulnerabilities with encryption that could be exploited) and they encouraged projects (servers + clients) to switch to a more secure library. Anything else you are thinking of?

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you have the issue trackers?

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• 0ndead@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Scratching this one of the list then

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  • john_t@piefed.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you know what other federated messaging tool governments use? Email!
    Better scratch that too, just in case.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve heard government uses Linux too. I guess it’s BSD for me! 🙃

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• vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wanted to like matrix.

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.

  (Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)

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