• jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
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    1 year ago

    Am also gonna stick with signal, eyeing up matrix. But what issues? The only reason i haven’t tested it out yet is none of my friends seem too keen on trying it.

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      1 year ago

      For a lack of a better term: jank. Too much jank. For one instance, I have never seen in Whatsapp or Signal the phrase “unable to decrypt message”. I can deal with that personally, but >90% of the people I need to communicate to with messengers will drop a service and never look back if they see that.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I use it with many friends and it is super buggy. Calls work only ok on browser version of Element, bugs in encryption are common where you cannot read a message, Synapse server is bloating the database and not clean after itself, etc.

      It’s getting better month by month, but still can’t recommend for your friends that are not technical people into open source. Better wait to not discourage them now.