Useless messenger - eviltoast
  • root@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Switched to Matrix pretty recently, and it’s been surprisingly nice to use

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      10 months ago

      I heard XMPP is better though. Servers are way less hard on resources, its way simpler and just as secure. Decentralization, you can share all sorts of files and all, but video calls are simply done by another provider like Jitsi

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        10 months ago

        I am using both for enough long time,mutlidevice synchronization it’s nightmare in xmpp,also usual xmpp isplaintext.So when u wanna use encryptions like omemo so far not always guaranteed that ur encryption key will be delivered to ur new device which u connected.Also u cannot control sessions.So if u would be hacked u would not be notified,and u don’t have ability to kick out this dude session.But yes xmpp more light about resources and works faster for now.

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          10 months ago

          Thanks for the info!

          Yeah sessions should be controlled but are a pretty modern feature. Simply using strong passwords or even hardare OTP would be great. But for sure, a downside.

          Transferring private keys is interesting, this is pretty userul, true. signal to this day does not work here for me, so I prefer using it as a messenger, for temporary things. Afaik my matrix experience was better here.

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        10 months ago

        and just as secure

        The base procotol doesn’t have E2EE. You can do E2EE still but something to keep in mind.

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        10 months ago

        Re: resources: Dendrite is a full server rewrite for Matrix.
        I just have to get it working first…

      • root@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Oh interesting, I’ll check it out. I’m hosting my own server and I’m the only user on it, so it’s been pretty snappy :P