You people are mean on these websites and jokes aren't allowed goodbye forever

Also worth mentioning that Matrix does not encrypt the images while they’re on the home server itself and has a bunch of creepy issues like that. Homeservers have some weird privileges and attacks they can pull off on rooms, although in edge cases like when a room is totally orphaned and loses all participants.

Delta is notable for how you can delete all of your stuff off of the server after receiving it. I choose device based storage + higher security + the backup option over Matrix’s false promise of preserving old messages.

Matrix clients were insanely buggy and would still show rooms after my friends and I left them and stuff like that?? Augh. Also Delta lets you set a background image for impeccable atmosphere. Webapps open in new windows on desktop so it’s nice to throw stuff in them on mobile and come back when you’re ready to work at a full desk.

Withen@lemmygrad.ml · 4 days ago

No but XMPP is fine for that. I use both of them. DeltaChat has a way to send larger files in smaller chunks and store them in a persistent cloud drive type UI through the webapps it introduces.

The webapps are really nice and actually work a lot better than all of the Matrix integrations. They may look rustic but I actually use them for almost all of my notes and todo lists now lol. It has a very valuable place in my stack because of how I use it to sync notes and files between devices.

I should be a little more measured in my hyping of DeltaChat lol it’s just surprisingly good for how in-development it is already, soon to add location sharing and video chats, they’re in testing currently.

Multiple devices is a little quirky as you either need to make a new account (instantaneously) to communicaye with the same contacts and yourself, use the backup (doesn’t have a password), or do the transfer thing where you need both devices on the same wifi network.

Again I have tried to stress test Matrix and I did hang onto it for a while to do exactly what you’re describing but I just moved on because of the issues I mentioned and losing old messages even while doing everything right. It’s some shit with device key storage I think, shit can get fucked up. Maybe a more competent person with a tech job/unemployment would do better than me haha

Withen@lemmygrad.ml · 4 days ago

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Withen@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 4 days ago

Other people are absolutely going to take their cues from them and even try to become influencers. (We may wish to only relay particular messages, but we are boosting their personal brand.) That could have utility to intel agencies as well, encouraging everyone to organize openly on platforms that are not just public and as open to interference and infiltration as possible, but also profitable data scraping sources for social research. Knowing there’s no alternative or way around that, and this is what the majority of opposition media in the west consists of is why I am trying to find explanations. It’s not like these kinds of people haven’t been educational to me. I remember my whole pipelining from wondering why game developers can’t do whatever they want & whether my VPN actually works all the way to this conversation.

I may be paranoid, but I’m scrutinizing what really is the difference between someone like Ben Norton and Russel Brand. It’s considerable, but not as far as I’d like. I question whether the exceptions to the good takes of someone like Rania Khalek on Syria are organic, or a deliberate attempt to spend earned credibility and redirect political energy back into safe or beneficial avenues for the feds.

Of course, this isn’t all cut and dry. The majority of this is accomplished through process of elimination on social media, controlling the academic and journalistic apparatus with funding. It naturally produces these people. There are a number of ways to look at the system of compatible left journalism I am describing that go way beyond “X person is an informant”.

Withen@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 4 days ago

When I’m done with work I will try to find the time to write up the details of what I’m talking about in an actual post, as I am glossing over so much, but I just want to say if they were all communists it wouldn’t change my mind. (It’s just something which points to them being more agreeable to the form of nonviolent antiwar activism that was cooked up by the CIA in the late 1900s. The communist groups they feds are involved with have been kept the smallest and on the fringes compared to the DSA and more generic identity centered activism.) It’s more about how they fit into the expansion of the dissident journalist whistleblower scene into the pure glitz, style, and repetition of social media influencing.

I agree with these people on all kinds of things, but what do they want me to do? Just go out and try to create a mass consciousness event. People already are acutely aware of how fucked things are. They are bereft of organization and tactics, and these people offer them nothing other than recruitment drives, marches, and high production value videos for communicating with other people.

I do think that there is the potential for organizations and people that are compromised to have a mixed outcome and be genuinely confronted by the feds. E.g. McCarthyism smashing everything up resulting in us having access to the docs revealing the fed funding and infiltration of New Left groups, or grow into something greater.

Withen@lemmygrad.ml · 4 days ago

Nice, I think my younger cousins will love this

Withen@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 4 days ago

I have bad news, they are currently going through the process of closed source enclosure rather than fixing an important broken part of their software. Look up the Synapse Element drama. It’s so bad

I’m still gonna use Matrix via Matterbridge (it bridges everything check it out) because I like to diversify my options, but I’m not bug reporting their cruddy main client while they develop custom clients for NATO and other spooky organizations.

This isn’t about moralizing really, it’s a question of whether it’s worth trading convenience and access, and using up an amount of other people’s EXTREMELY FINITE patience to get them to at least add redundancy for their main social network online by figuring out a new app. People really hate using Matrix. It feels slow, it often loses all your messages. I have never lost old messages with Delta Chat, it can use traditional email servers & accounts in many cases (check the list on their site), and the backup system is easy even if it’s a little tucked into the UI.

Matrix has repeatedly lost my older messages for seemingly no reason, on the same device and everything, and on top of that randomly will not let me use my backups. I use a password manager! I know I did not use the wrong password on them! I would rather just have XMPP or Delta Chat’s device management than that haunted nightmare LOL. It’s so laggy!!! If you have like 3 voice messages or files on the screen it is visibly high latency. It is often high latency for seemingly no reason at all. It makes my phone hot and my computer chug. Some clients don’t properly implement encryption!

It takes too much energy to even describe what is wrong with Matrix! My patience has run out already

Withen@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 4 days ago

The Synapse drama is actually game over for Element/Matrix IMO. Move your friends to DeltaChat. It’s not a pain in the ass, it’s really snappy. XMPP is better for replacing the Matrix chatroom here for instance. I don’t have the energy to explain the drama or why. Go to the main Delta Chat developer’s fediverse page for more info

I’m not sure how robust it is as I have used it little, but Movim (an XMPP social media service akin to ActivityPub) seems like a much better option than Mastodon, various blogging services, and most IM apps. Really easy to have encrypted social media and then have a publicly shareable link through it. Check it out