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I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden (shkspr.mobi)
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[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 90 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

This one is probably one of the most disappointing one; Matrix had everything I wanted in terms of chat features. Programmability-wise, all it was an encrypted JSON sender/receiver, but in a good way. It basically could be extended however you want since it provided a useful primitive. But the encryption just randomly fails, and it's hard to figure out why, causing you to miss messages. I eventually gave up on building a side project for it.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Your name gave me a chuckle. Yeah its unfortunate.

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just a little bit of trolling’

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

[object Object]

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same here - the encryption issues killed my project too, the problem is that Matrix's OLM/Megolm protocol implementation doesn't handle device verification and key distribution robustly enugh across multiple clients.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Right. It's not like other services have implemented it better though, or is there any? I don't think we should punish them for trying to do it in a more usable way than with signal

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

i definitely encountered this in the past but element has constantly improved for my self hosted situation