On Discord, I open the app, go to a server, and can see all the rooms and all the messages almost instantly.

On Element (at least on Android), chats from different communities intermingle with my groups.

are you using the spaces feature in element? that’s the same thing as discord “servers”. they are on the left, unless you have none yet. the default setting in element is a bit silly, you should turn off showing rooms from all spaces when a space is not opened, it’ll be much better.

on phone the space list is at the bottom.

I tapped on a large and slow-moving group, and watched messages slowly lurch into view as most of the messages were “join” and “leave” ones.

which app are you using? element X, or the old, plain element? the old app is slow, the new one should work much better in that regard.

you can also disable showing name change and membership change events if you don’t care, but membership is good to be aware of and shouldn’t be a problem with element x

honest question, what is there to understand? it sounds you already got through registration so you are through the hardest part which is choosing a provider.

schildi has mostly the same look, but has extra settings.

I think there’s a setting in element web/desktop to hide rooms in the main list when they are in a space, did you try that?

thanks, it seems it worked! the post image now loads fine

that I don’t know, so far I have only seen that an unusual amount of tech news sites reported it which I wouldn’t consider to be inside of our bubble

In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them

not only then. also if they make owning prohibitively expensive, or otherwise inaccessible.

A workaround for your community might be to not enable encryption in your community rooms

or another workaround is to tell them: if they don’t want to deal with the recovery key, that’s fine, but then they should treat it like signal where if you lose your devices, you lose your old messages. its fine to most people if they know the consequences of their choices beforehand, I think, and this way it won’t feel like an obligation, like a needy app

Matrix uses a similar end-to-end cryptography scheme to Signal. “Rooms” (chats, channels) are not encrypted by default, b

I don’t think that’s true anymore. it has been encrypted by default for quite a few years now

as soon as possible. you never know what could happen

in element x you can’t yet manage spaces. It’s silly but it’s a relatively new app and and development goes slowly for some reason. you can create the space in element web though, probably element desktop too because they are the same thing.

about the difficulty of registration. you could recommend an instance to them, so they don’t need to choose themselves if they don’t want to. I recommend one that has set up single signon and element call, and is medium sized (so that it is somewhat prepared for spam waves). https://tchncs.de/en/matrix/ is like that.
what would be even better is if it was using tuwunel instead of synapse, because the former is the more efficient matrix server software, but the other is good enough too.

if you want to put in some more effort, you can have some insight into matrix servers with this tool: https://federationtester.mtrnord.blog/?serverName=tchncs.de

• overview tab shows at top the server software and its version. synapse is official but very resource heavy for the operator, tuwunel is more efficient
• well-known tab can indicate element call support by having defined org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci with livekit. I can’t believe there is no easier way to check this!
• single signon is supported when the element client’s login page for this server allows signing in with external accounts, like github, google, tchncs.de account, etc.

and you can find a list of public servers to check here: https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

I’m truly surprised that lots of people don’t like it. I expected most will just silently obey the new orders of our overlords.

but I don’t run a recursive resolver, I use quad9 as upstream. Shouldn’t they return a response even if I was blocked?

dig confirms with EDNS extensions that the response is coming from quad9. the error says “no reachable authority” so it must be at least partly what you say, but I think you ended up blocking a DNS provider.

what’s more, I can’t load this meme normally, my pihole says “no reply received” for the single domain of dubvee.org

now its another thing to determine whether a server you are looking at has set up support for Element call, or is still on the older calling method not supported by the new apps…

the better solution is to ban porn from the platform. that’s it. there are some people who won’t like it, but they will find another porn platform.

convert them to vorbis. much better quality at mp3 sizes

do you happen to know if shucking is an option and whether it is viable in larger capacity drives? 12, 16 TB or so. for upgrade, not starter server of course

what’s more, that dozen one-attribute classes could have really just been a single class for the button type… and while I’m at it… 10 KB, after minification and compression?? why the fuck does a follow button need so much code?? oh! its because its made with sloppy coding just like in this example!

the parent can only do that on devices they own. they can’t do that on classmates devices

Nah, I think we just need a dialog box - could be like osx - “are you sure you want to allow the plugin that you said you wanted to use? It was built by: you, not signed by Mozilla.” Maybe put a “You have unsigned plugins running” tool tip - that gets displayed at startup or every 8 hours.

that won’t help to warn the largest part of the target audience, those who were trained by big tech to dismiss those dialogs by reflex without reading a word in it