We're glad to announce that Accessible Android now has a new Telegram community. This is a group where only Accessible Android channel subscribers can comment or message, or the ones who have the invite link can join to comment or message. Here's the invite link - please spread the news via your boosts:
https://t.me/+D_39lHa00NdhYWQ0
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@accessibleandroid accessible android matrix room, when?
@esoteric_programmer Guess the Accessible Android admins need to learn how to use Matrix first.
@accessibleandroid ahh, that's not that hard. You pick an instance or host your own, make a room, or a space if you have multiple rooms, think of those as discord servers where rooms are channels, then bridge with telegram if you want, and finally put on some moderation bots, for example mjolnir or dropnear if I spelled that correctly, for abuse prevention. There you go, almost done. If you want to persue this further, I'm happy to help if you're having issues with any of the above.
@esoteric_programmer We'll definitely consider that. Reaching out to more users is our top priority. Do you have any idea if the Android app is accessible enough?
@accessibleandroid yes, very much so. Thing is, matrix, like mastodon, is a decentralized platform. So, not only you don't have a single client, but also you can use multiple server implementations, because matrix is only the specification. It has encryption turned on by default for private messages, so something like telegram in usage, but much better. But yeah, skipping the technical stuff, there are afew very good clients for android. The first one, and most mature as far as I know, is element. Designed by the element company, in concordance with the spec and with collaboration from the matrix foundation, it's made to be fast and accessible. That can be found through both the playstore and fdroid, the android marketplace for open source apps. Another is called element X, and it can only be found in the playstore. Basically, next generation matrix client, to make it be very fast, but that requires support from the server, or at least enough support for the sliding sync proxy, but this is generally already configured and you don't have to wory about it. Element X, while it solves a lot of the issues with matrix, by unifying the crypto implementations, has some missing features, for example calls, because that's getting revamped as well, and they want to include the awesome next version, not this stopgap current one element has. Then, there are the benefits of matrix itself, as a very versatile protocol, basically just a data transport mechanism currently used for chat, but it can be used for a lot of things. I use it to bridge all the platforms I use in a single place, so for example, whatsapp, messenger, email, all that stuff goes in separate rooms inside matrix, so I can answer to each thing with my usual matrix client and the bridge will take care of relaying that information for each social network, though that doesn't mean one bit that I use those networks more than I absolutely have to. Just saying, that's what beeper tryed to do, that's how their bridge to IMessage and their android app worked, they used matrix as glue more or less. Too bad apple drove them into the ground, because the effort sounded cool. You know how it is, when the big players do it, it's innovation, but when we do it, it's piracy, bullshit I say!