Nowadays I can't come up with any good reason to use XMPP since there's Matrix and https://riot.im/
XMPP has adapted over time to support various chat and instant messaging features that we today take for granted. These adaptions come in the form of Extensions/XEP. I remember spending two hours with a geek friend to configure something that resembles what we get from any other instant messenger today (working across multiple devices).
Meanwhile, Matrix just works. Granted, UX involved with the key management associated with E2EE was not what it should have been. But, that has largely been fixed in v1.0.
Wouldn't spend the time to get into XMPP, if I didn't already have a decent network of friends there. And yeah, there's a XMPP/Matrix bridge available if you decide to go Matrix. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/as/matrix-xmpp-bridge.html
It's interesting that you compare Riot with Conversations as Conversations feels and looks much better to me (native UI) while Riot for Android always gave me the webapp feel. But Riot works consistently on all OSes while Conversations (in my opinion the best free/federated messenger to date) is available only on Android.
Riot/Android is a completely native app, but it grew pretty organically and is far from perfect. We're in the final stages of replacing it with a rewrite in Kotlin nicknamed RiotX, which should be unrecognisably better: https://github.com/vector-im/riotX-android.
And any plans of design overhaul in a way that it appeals to the end user too (something people could use as an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram) along with it being used as an IRC/Discord/Slack alternative?
Riot/iOS is already native, and works pretty well, so will likely evolve to behave more like RiotX as time goes on rather than getting rewritten.
RiotX is trying to be something that starts off feeling like WhatsApp or Telegram, but can expand into IRC/Discord/Slack for powerusers. Who knows if it'll work.
This looked really good when I tried last but it was really unstable and lacking features. Will check again. PS. That link isn't working - this one does https://github.com/neilalexander/seaglass
Logging in with @cyphar:cyphar.com works for me. I host my own homeserver so I did have to set it up, but if you are using someone else's homeserver that is all you need to do. The homeserver and identity server information is all provided with the new .well-known/matrix/client support.
if you're not a matrix.org user, you either enter your full mxid to discover your server, or manually enter your homeserver's URL in Advanced. if this isn't working, please yell...
Matrix just about replaces my need for other services like IRC and XMPP too, helped in part by the various bridges available. Plus Matrix doesn’t suffer from problems with client state like IRC and XMPP do, which is very beneficial on mobile devices or unreliable networks.
You can download freedombox and put it on an rpi to get matrix-synapse on it. Took me an hour to get a Matrix server running which then you can use with Riot and it works perfectly.
Now if you mean to get your own local riot frontend for it, I thought there were some docker scripts that would let you do that quickly but I haven't tried those.
Are you going to elaborate in the specific nature of your issues or leave some bait like that? Riot.im should be trivially installable on most Linux systems, including the raspberry pi.
The specific nature of my issue is that there are a finite number of hours in a day.
If you go to the trouble of working on multi-year open source project it shows a lack of foresight to not include a quick install guide for one of the mostly widely sold hobbyist hardware platforms in the world.
Are you talking about the riot-web client? There are Debian packages for it, but even if you don't use those the client is all client-side JavaScript so you can statically host it. I will submit a bug report to add a quick-install guide to the README but it's quite trivial (untar into /var/www/html).
matrix-synapse does have quick install guides but a RPi is probably a bit too low spec to run a matrix server that will federate with matrix.org (though it depends strongly on what rooms you join and how many users you have).
>I remember spending two hours with a geek friend to configure something that resembles what we get from any other instant messenger today (working across multiple devices).
Kind of like complaining that email is too complicated because it took a long time to set someone up. XMPP is a protocol. You would have to provide more context to let us understand why the use of XMPP extensions was a pain.
The matrix.org infrastructure was hacked. Yes, this is obviously a problem (though their recent blog post does help restore some confidence).
But saying we shouldn't use Matrix because of this event is like saying we shouldn't use IRC because Freenode was hacked. Or we shouldn't use XMPP because HipChat was hacked. Not to mention that Matrix has sane E2EE support so folks who were using it didn't have to worry about their conversations being broken (and E2EE-by-default for Matrix is on the horizon).
the CI server that was compromised was used (mainly) for running tests rather than builds. we don't believe that any builds were compromised. https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/08/post-mortem-and-remediati... has the full details, but yes: just because the project's infrastructure got breached doesn't mean that the protocol or wider network was affected: it wasn't.
Strangely enough, there's the same sort of renewables-only electricity choices in oil-obsessed Alberta, Canada. The city of Calgary's rail transit system runs solely on electricity purchased from wind farms.
Does anywhere have completely free speech? The U.S. has a whole host of limitations on it[0], despite it being protected by the First Amendment, as does every country I can think of.
Completely free, no. But there are substantial differences. The limitations in US are far less than any other developed country, particularly when you account for the process (e.g. standard of scrutiny necessary to overcome 1A protection in court). This is especially true when it comes to political speech, which is considered to be the prime target for 1A protection.
In Germany, whole categories of political speech are explicitly censored, and I'm not even talking about stuff like Holocaust denial. For example, a party can be banned for having a platform that contradicts "liberal democratic basic order". And even informal networks of people can be categorized as "associations" and banned in this manner.
that's a fine line between liberal free speech (where you have to stick to facts and are hold accountable by the society if you actively are undermining its foundations) and libertarian free spech (where there is no society)
Personally I prefer to distinguish between freedom of opinion and freedom of speech (the former is what is closer to what the german constitution actually says in german, to some degree). It's more explicit about what I think should be the standard instead of total free speech.
So in that view, yeah, my country doesn't have free speech. We have free opinions.
Nowadays I can't come up with any good reason to use XMPP since there's Matrix and https://riot.im/
XMPP has adapted over time to support various chat and instant messaging features that we today take for granted. These adaptions come in the form of Extensions/XEP. I remember spending two hours with a geek friend to configure something that resembles what we get from any other instant messenger today (working across multiple devices).
Meanwhile, Matrix just works. Granted, UX involved with the key management associated with E2EE was not what it should have been. But, that has largely been fixed in v1.0.
Wouldn't spend the time to get into XMPP, if I didn't already have a decent network of friends there. And yeah, there's a XMPP/Matrix bridge available if you decide to go Matrix. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/as/matrix-xmpp-bridge.html