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What am I missing with Matrix? (herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol)

submitted 1 day ago by klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I will be upfront with this, and say that I've never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it'd gotten better in the year or so since I've last used it.

This just... Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I've tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can't find a way to change that.

Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can't.

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[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

matrix is pointless, huge bloated buggy ass server, no cheogram (phone number connection) or movim (social network accessible with any xmpp account), I can't even be bothered to list off my issues with it I wrote out on some comment on some other account here just save yourself.

xmpp literally lets me run phone numbers in 4 different countries that stay connected wherever I am

if you don't wanna deal with that arcanechat/deltachat is amazing tech that stays almost entirely on device. the arcanechat dev adb is cuban and YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY NOW

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 1 points 14 hours ago

I'd heard of DeltaChat, and I use Cheogram as my main XMPP app, but I'll have to look into arcanechat!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

if you don't wanna deal with that arcanechat/deltachat is amazing tech that stays almost entirely on device. the arcanechat dev adb is cuban and YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY NOW

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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you explain a bit about how you set up the phone numbers? Are those normal mobile numbers that people can text/call, etc? So you just need a data plan for mobile device?

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the app will prompt you with the easy US/Canada options, but there are several providers. I will make a note in my planner to explain how to do it in countries that lack these services but it is really tough I had to spend tjme on the phone with telecoms to get it connected to our shit and by the time I was done it was beer o clock so I didn't write it all down lol

[–] zo0@programming.dev 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Which app? Which implementation?

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm assuming they're talking about Cheogram, since they mentioned it in their comment, and Cheogram does prompt you to set up a phone number at the end of the login process. I don't know how well they work, because I don't use it