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Matrix.org mentions (582)

• Qilin: A Starter Project Template For Every Open Source Project

  GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

  Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it's worth keeping in mind that it's not end-to-end encrypted, so it's less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use. For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in),... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger

  I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance. [0] https://matrix.org. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Meta is pulling the plug on Messenger chats on Instagram

  Trillian mod here. There's this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It's not as the good old times, but I'm currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It's not Cerulean experience, but it's... Slowly improving. Source: 5 months ago

• Connect to Element One in Element X?

  I'm trying to change my account provider from "matrix.org" to whatever Element One needs, and for the life of me I just don't understand what values I have to put where to be able to log in. I tried `element.io`, which takes me to sso.element.io but this doesn't seem like the right thing (no credentials work as I expect. Source: 6 months ago

Tox mentions (28)

• Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS

  How does it compare to the more mature Tox[0]? 0. https://tox.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Jitsi.org has started requiring authentication

  You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff. https://tox.chat/ https://jami.net/ I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• I'm designing a spy game and need an Anonymous Chat App that's easy to use.

  Still, Tox still around and kicking 😎. Source: about 1 year ago

• Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

  Jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was. Source: about 1 year ago

• Turkey Blocks Twitter After Public Criticism of Quake Response

  Just heard about Tox today from a podcast: https://tox.chat/ (instant messenger, voice, video, screen share, file share). Source: about 1 year ago