But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.
federation is important not because it can be used as some kind of buzzword, but because without it, even here we would be much fewer. there would be more very small communities, which can’t interact, and overall with strictly distinct lemmy instances the whole user number would be much lower because of things people complain about a lot even this way, that there’s not enough content
That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.
how would you that? most children aren’t buying their phones by themselves
Your prior comment was for newcomers?
no, it was for everyone.
This was obviously written for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Most newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.
the point was not to explain how encryption works, but to paint a picture about how many details matter a lot, so that the reader can know that just some kind of “encryption” does not mean much
yes, that would be ideal, but at any point in time we will have newcomers, for them it won’t be obvious
Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.
you are largely overestimating the capabilities of the average consumer. most don’t even know on a surface level how the internet works, and what dangers it poses.
encryption wouldn’t solve the problem, just raise more questions. how is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? these are non-trivial questions that have to be asked in an encrypted system where encryption is not just a gimmick or a marketing buzzword.
having encryption and “secure!” plastered all over the box and the phone app does not mean anything, especially when you need protection against the manufacturer.
idk, I think it’s sensible that it’s part of room history. also, other platforms do that too.
what is not sensible is that loading them is slow, but I don’t experience that even in popular rooms
I was asking to find out if the slowness could be because your server does not support sliding sync for some reason (the newer faster sync method that doesn’t try to load everything), but matrix.org does. I don’t use that server anymore because they are way too overloaded for years, but maybe that’s the issue here too.
can I ask which homeserver are you using?
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.
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
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.
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…
they are arguing that a children’s game platform shouldn’t host porn