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

submitted 3 months 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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[-] hayvan@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago

Has anyone tried Mattermost? It's modeller after Slack mostly.

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I run Mattermost at home since several years, and now I am switching to Zulip.

Mattermost is also enshittifying itself and imposing limits like those that caused us to flee from Slack.

Zulip is (afaik) true FOSS without venture capital, and has no restrictions. It's what we should habe done from the start.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago

Neither of those supports E2EE unfortunately.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 2 points 3 months ago

TIL about Zulip, thank you.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

They are going downhill recently. Everyone around me is trying to get rid of it.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

mattermost is meant for big corporations or governments

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And how is that a problem? Too powerful? Too scalable? Can handle more users than you need?

We use it for a corporation of 20 people just fine.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

Matrix too.

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