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

submitted 3 days 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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[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use Cheogram on mobile, and on desktop I use Dino. I've also used Conversations on mobile, which is what Cheogram is a fork of. Cheogram has some extra features I wanted. Also Movim, but on mobile I've found the general consistency to be... Bad

[–] HumbleBragger@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Man I wish I had friends to talk to using xmpp or even matrix. Where I live people have hard time using telegram over whatsapp..I hate that I'm forced to use it to talk to people.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I just at some point got tired of it and kinda just told everyone "I have an XMPP account, a signal account, a phone number, and an email address. You can use any of those to get in contact with me." and they all picked one. Nobody picked email though xD

[–] HumbleBragger@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I struggle with that..I'm not very popular and I'm afraid nobody will ever talk to me if I ask them to just use a different app. I'm in one group chat from my old army buddies and we barely chat..

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 1 points 11 hours ago

That's part of why I still gave phone numbers and emails, despite both not being secure in any capacity; most people do have them, even if they're not their preferred methods of communication.

I did lose a couple of people, but they were the ones I caught up with like... Once a year, anyway. Not that I didn't value them as friends, but there comes a point where it's like... I'm not missing a whole lot without you here, y'know. And it's not like I had that many friends, either, I only have a handful of people I talk to regularly. Maybe 15-20 a month if we're including friends of people I know who I see in passing?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

i get the impression that we all are. lol