Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom

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Keet

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Chat 8 social mentions

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Medium

I hope their security is better than in 2019 when the French Tchap service based on Matrix was immediately compromised by a trivial attack [1]. Matrix.org has also been breached in the past [2]. That's ignoring the fact their project was born out of a company that operates front office for one of the world's most aggressive spy agencies... [1] https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tchap-the-super-not-secure-app-of-the-french-government-84b31517d144 [2] https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/we-have-discovered-and-addressed-a-security-breach-updated-2019-04-12.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2188 social mentions

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SchildiChat

I had to look up each of them. This looks to be the only one that is based on Element: https://schildi.chat/.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 6 social mentions

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The Lounge

For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine. Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server. [1] - https://github.com/thelounge [3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/ [5] - https://www.mumble.info/ [6] - <a href="https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration">https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration</a>.

#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 38 social mentions

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Convos

For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine. Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server. [1] - https://github.com/thelounge [3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/ [5] - https://www.mumble.info/ [6] - <a href="https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration">https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration</a>.

#Group Chat & Notifications #Communication #Messaging 10 social mentions

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Kiwi IRC

> At that point you've just reimplemented a less-standard version of matrix with extra steps though. There are IRCv3 specifications that allow this richer experience, and they are at least as standard as Matrix. Check out https://ergo.chat/ with modern clients like https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/ (Android), https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ https://kiwiirc.com/ (web), or https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai (TUI) > but in practice using your enhanced server from an unenhanced client will always be painful IRCv3 normally makes sure new specs don't make it worse for older clients. Could you give me some examples to see if we can fix that?

#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 6 social mentions