The Late Night Linux Family

In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-146/

#podcast #linux #development #matrix

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Show threadraspberry9h ago
@latenightlinux I really enjoyed this episode, as someone who previously criticised matrix for its decisions, after reading every "I've given up on matrix" blog post, after trying every alternative, ive spun up a Continuwuity matrix homeserver and its the best experience I've had so far.
it obviously still has some sharp edges, but I think there is some very good work going into matrix to solve these problems and I'm glad matrix has someone like Andy working on it!
IMO its the best we have and i still reckon it is the future
Show threaddan7h ago
@latenightlinux stoat (formerly revolt) is an affero gpl3 messenger with self-hosting capabilities and near-feature parity with discord's frontend (missing video and screen sharing, as well as forum-like thread posting. the interface is familiar for people migrating from discord, and the experience is generally clean and polished. the home instance allows you to find communities based on recommendations, popularity, or a dedicated search, which has helped me find communities for writers, gamers, and music lovers
Show threadraspberry3h ago

@edboythinks @latenightlinux i'm personally not very interested in stoat because it seems that federation is either not going to be implemented at all or going to be an afterthought. Right now if you ask someone "do you have Discord?" to exchange contact information you dont need to ask what server you're on or whatever, its just username, search, add. that's it.

Yes, federation is "hard" but it's doable and i personally think the "network" of anyone being able to talk to anyone should be in scope for these sorts of projects.