The way permissions are listed on mobile operating these days is honestly pretty misleading.

For example, I know some apps that need to request network permission even though they don't need to connect to the internet. Not because they want to do anything shady, but because they legitably have to in order to get certain info.

Not to mention the problem of listing everything an app can do as if it is doing all of those things.

I studied cryptography and I can't figure out how to do the dance right. I thought I did, but one of my contacts says they can't read any message I send them. And I can't message them to figure out why.

We haven't spoken since. Thanks Matrix.

I’m still sad they stopped work on dendrite. P2P level decentralization, with E2EE, would be amazing.

These are still great improvements though. I'm hyped that loading seems to be so much faster.

Even better.

It's opt-in instead of opt -out

What's the difference between the normal app and element X? Why create a new app?

EDIT: I installed it, but can't verify for some reason.

EDIT: It works now, and it's very fast compared to the other client. It's a shame spaces aren't supported.

All I read is Marketing Tech Speak that sounds no different than anything else that gets advertised in my face. At work, we use Teams. It is a pain sometimes when it gets a little buggy, but integrates into SharePoint/OneDrive and the noise suppression in meetings is pretty awesome. At home I use discord or GChat because that is where all my friends are. I don't assume I have privacy on any of these platforms and they all work on my phone and computer.

How is the user experience? Ultimately, give me privacy, but if the user experience and UI don't give any improvements over the corporate ones, I will have to try it some other time.

Not only is it a successful Rust rewrite

only the crypto SDK is Rust, the frontend and other app code is kotlin

but they also fixed the system architecture of Matrix to improve speeds

they did that by storing a lot less of the state on your phone in my understanding, and that means it won't work as whell when offline or on a slow connection, and will use more mobile data from the cap. that is, if I'm correct.

my previous phone is not supported by current versions of element x. on the new one, I would probably not notice anything, because it's not slow there and OS battery usage accounting is garbage.

currently I'm waiting for an F-droid release, as they are 3 months behind

Yes, you can. The server code is on github. But I don't know why you would, since all messages are encrypted client-side.

Its more secure because you know that all your users can't send a message unencrypted, either accidentally or intentionally.

Telegram isn't really an alternative, they don't even use encryption by default, so it should be faster

even the user interface? the animations all over the app, scrolling between 2 consecutive messages of a room or anywhere in the settings? It's not like element would encrypt the data at rest anyway. any and all menus of telegram are noticeably smoother, when not even looking for it

there's a graphical indicator if they send something unencrypted, and there's no way to turn an encrypted chat into an unencrypted chat on matrix. Plus they start encrypted by default, I honestly don't even know how to make an unencrypted chat, I don't think there's any good way to other than using a client that doesn't have encryption.

this is not a real problem.

It is a problem. Many orgs have strict rules not to use messaging solutions that support unencrypted messages

This doesn't tick the box, so it blocks adoption