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Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon (wedistribute.org)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Important progress has been made regarding bringing MLS end-to-end encryption to the ActivityPub protocol, with developers already building implementations and providing feedback to a future version of the protocol spec.

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[–] 17 points 7 months ago (19 children)

Matrix is decentralized but its not federating in a way like activity pub is doing

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    ActivityPub isn't the only way to federate.
    Matrix is federating the same way email does. Anyone can spin up their own server. And if they want anyone can spin up their own software. That's what federation is. Different servers agreeing on how to communicate with each other.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    What??? I thought being part of Federation meant being part of the WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION!

    OOOOH YEAH, SEE I'M ALWAYS THINKIN THINKIN THINKIN, YEAH. AND WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, WE DO THING IN THE RING! DIG IT! THE TOWER OF POWER TOO SWEET TO BE SOUR, FUNKY LIKE A MONKEY! OOOOOOH YEEEAAAHHHH!!!!

    Pomp and circumstance plays over the house speakers

    ELIZABETH!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    No that's decentralization, federating is when you can share the info natively outside the platform.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    share the info natively outside the platform.

    I'm not even sure that makes sense.
    Federating is based on protocols not platforms. And what does it mean to share natively if not using the protocol?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    How so? It's certainly very similar.

    The matrix protocol enables federation between different instances running different homeservers between users using different clients.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    But all those clients are matrix, not say some discord, some fluxer, some stoat, etc.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    What do you mean?

    And what benefit justifies yet another standard?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    In this day and age we need as many open source e2e encrypted alternatives as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Matrix is a protocol, not an “App”. We would all benefit if everyone stopped doing their own thing, and started to push stuff for Matrix.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Huh? ActivityPub is also a protocol, now with this feature, why does that extra feature stop people from using Matrix?

    Matrix has a list of specs, and ActivityPub has a different list, there may be some overlap but what's the problem here?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Matrix does not connect natively to discord as an example, every user of a matrix protocol is still within matrix

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