• Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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    48 months ago

    I mean, sure, you can use Matrix for personal chats. It’s perfectly secure, but it’s not as easy to use as Signal. For example, if I told my grandma to install Element and send me her Matrix ID, she would be really confused. Signal is very easy to use, and the user experience is basically the same as on mainstream platforms like WhatsApp. I also don’t think that the phone number requirement is a US thing, as Telegram also has it. Signal only requires phone numbers to prevent spam, but they recently introduced usernames, so you don’t have to give people your phone number in order for them to message you.

    • Kairos
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      28 months ago

      Element is just a piece of shit. Matrix is fine for almost all use cases. If you actually need metadata protection use Session.

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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        38 months ago

        The old version of Element ain’t great, but it is currently being replaced with a complete new, rewritten app called Element X. Check it out, it’s really awesome. Session isn’t good at protecting metadata, as it removes important parts of the Signal protocol, in order to work on a decentralized network. Just using Signal is probably the best solution for private communications.