Matrix

What's up, I'm new to matrix and have just been getting into it, I'm trying to replace discord with it. When prompted to make an account I stupidly chose the "continue with google" option. This didn't seem like such a big deal at first, but now as far as I can tell it's impossible for me to sign in on my phone. The element client on IOS doesn't have an option to continue with google, and since I chose that I don't have a password, and I can't make a password without providing my existing password (which I don't have). Does anyone have any ideas? should I just make a new account and start fresh?

Is this a friend request, a space invite, something else? Can I find a description somewhere or am I supposed to get invites from people I know?

Discord bots to give users collection games. Trying to move people off discord but this is a sticking point

Reference

https://github.com/ker0olos/fable

https://top.gg/bot/432610292342587392

Hey. Im thinking about creating matrix client based on telegram. I think their UI/UX is one of the best among messengers. Plus their android app is open source.

I have to take couple of things in consideration, like: licensing, technical details and some more. Its very possible from the technical perspective and pretty unclear from the licensing/legal perspective (since they could change license any moment or even go private).

In this post i would mostly like to know if open source community even wants anything related to telegram. Not everyone likes it. The project would target mainly open source community and will be public as well.

So the questions: Do you think we would want it? And would you personally try it?

Thank you <3

EDIT: :V If you think its bad idea, please tell me. I see much of positive response (and i feel pretty happy about it), but i have to be real, so if you think im wrong or you see any problems, please speak up :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27749197

> I've been trying to use Matrix to replace sites like Discord or Slack. But it seems that if a user creates an invitation-only room in a server, then invited users who are registered on other servers get errors when trying to join. Not very useful error messages either: "Failed to join room". (In my case, I tried creating accounts and rooms at nitro.chat and then at converser.eu, but friends registered at matrix.org don't manage to join). > > Quite a let-down. Anyone who's facing the same problem and has maybe managed to solve it?

So I'll keep this brief. I really like Matrix's idea of a decentralized messaging platform, and after thr Telegram CEO got arrested in France, some friends are feeling iffy about staying there.

The main point of friction I'm encountering, however, is that whenever anyone goes and looks at Matrix and looks through available public servers to join, they're pretty quickly coming across some very undesirable rooms, to put it tactfully. Are there any ways that I could limit their visibility or ability to interact with those rooms? Server listing sites that make an effort to avoid listing those kinds of rooms, ways to block a room from showing up when you search within the client, etc? Currently we're running matrix.org accounts and using Element for PC/Android, to keep things simple.

It used to be extremely flimsy and unstable but more recently it actually runs pretty well. I can actually use my self hosted server now. It doesn't crash when I join a larger room.

I am part of a network of local groups spread across the world. We would like to set up a private Matrix space for the members of the network. Since the local groups are the only ones who have an overview over who their members are, they should be able to add and delete their members as needed.

Does Matrix allow such a federated permission model? The closest thing that I could think if so far would be that each local group creates their own space and manages their members there. The network space would be configured to be accessible for members of all those spaces. The problem with this approach is that as far as I understand, once a member has joined the network space and some of its rooms, they will remain a member of those even if they are removed from their local group space.

Are there any suggestions how such a system could be implemented? Surely this is something that many decentralized networks and organizations are facing.

I use the desktop app frequently and it would be great to have a modern, fast(er) app

Does it work well? Which one to choose? The official Matrix site shows 3 that seem maintained:

• matrix-appservice-discord
• mautrix-discord
• out-of-your-element

Does anyone have some insight? I don't want to try all of them.

Edit: I don't need anything super fancy like double puppeting. I just want the data from the several Discord communities I joined available through my Matrix server. And it's just me using it. But it should bridge the rooms properly and include the popular media formats, reactions etc.

I have heard these words used a lot in Matrix documentation. Here's what I think they mean:

• Bot: Like a Discord or Slack bot, can be run off of a normal account on a homeserver (no homeserver hosting required)
• Bridge: Connects Matrix and another messaging service, self-hosted homeserver seems to be required
• Integration: Another name for a Bot, or is it something displayed in Matrix clients (ex: Element has n Etherpad integration)???
• Appservice: A better bot???

There's also the whole language around bridges (puppeting, plumbing, etc.), but that's for another question.

Edit: Question based on DMA: element.io/blog/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/

I have a TrueNAS scale NAS setup and I would like to host a matrix server. Do I have any options? Any particular implementation that I should go with? Does anyone have any experience with this?

Hey, I'm fortunate enough to upgrade my home-server. I'd like to make some future-proof decisions. Which Matrix server do I choose? Dendrite? Conduit?

I like the candidate to be halfway well maintained, have active development during the next 4 years... Would be nice if it had a solid technological base and wouldn't hog that many resources. I'm okay if it still has some rough edges as long as they get ironed out in the near future.

It needs to provide service to me and a few friends and family. Audio calls would be nice and I definitely need it to connect to the Mautrix-WhatsApp/-Signal bridges.

Did I miss something? Is there another good server implemention apart from Synapse/Dendrite/Conduit?

Bonus questions:

1. Is Synapse the only server that can connect to SSO? Ideally I would like to maintain the user accounts via Authentik/LDAP/...whatever...
2. Is there a server that can handle multiple domains? Like an e-mail server that I can just tell "you handle mail for the following 5 domain names?"

Exist some solution for spam filters in matrix ? For Example on Proton Mail you can create aliases so I create for each person/service a aliases to avoid spam. I thing we need also a concept for matrix for this problem.

Hi guys, I was looking for matrix.org's and Element Client's privacy policies and I saw something that says Matrix and Element shares data with AWS (Amazon Web Service), Cloudflare, Mythic Beasts, UpCloud. Is it safe to use? The matrix.org has good features as FOSS, decentralized etc. But this seem a lil bad. Any experts about prviacy?

I want to migrate my friends to self-hosted Matrix server I have for some time now. The problem is, that all Android clients seem missing for me. Element is too buggy (especially for encryption) and has bad UX. Element X is still experimental and lacks core features. FluffyChat has most features and nice ones like stickers, but calls or location sharing is here as a placeholder but not really working.

If you migrated someone to Matrix, what client did you found out to "be working" for people not caring about protocol? Because I care for protocol and can stand some bugs, that others could not.

I've set up my homeserver via matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, but made the mistake of using my domain as ansible_host variable at first. I think that is why now my Coturn server doesn't work as intended. Calls can only be made (in Element) when I enable turn.matrix.org as an alternative in the settings.

Since the initital setup, I've correctly replaced the domain with the server IP in the ansible inventory file and reran just setup-all, but I still can't make calls via my homeserver.

1. Is it likely that the mistake I made is causing this issue?
2. What can I do to correct the Coturn configuration or otherwise fix this issue?

EDIT: I've found this in the docs: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/blob/master/docs/configuring-playbook-turn.md#manually-defining-your-public-ip I'll try this and report back.

EDIT2: This did not fix the issue.

Discord but good. Good luck to the devs, I sincerely hope this doesn't get abandoned.

I've used matrix-docker-ansible-deploy to set up Dendrite and the Sliding Sync proxy. Is there a way for me to test the sliding sync functionality?

I haven't really used any kind of messenger service since probably MSN Messenger and IRC back in the day so I'm a bit behind on a lot of the basics. Part of what's quite different now than the experience then is what modern messenger protocols seem to be used for, as in they have public channels dedicated to topics that function like communities, whereas I only really had experience using them for talking to people I personally knew IRL and manually adding some kind of username to establish talking.

I just got a matrix client and joined a community on a specific interest because I had a question I wanted to ask. I did something similar about a year ago on Discord. This worked.... sorta but the problem I had doing this on Discord is kind of what I think I'm going to run in to on Matrix. If the community is open to the public, there's going to be a lot of people some of whom will log on at different times. If I post a message asking a question hoping someone will have an answer for me, I feel like it's going to be hard to see anybody replying to me specifically because presumably there's going to be lots of people talking to each other on various topics including those with their own questions. The messages just come in a stream, much like you'd expect of something designed around chat but like, if I get up to make coffee and miss someone's reply to me, how would I ever find it. Or conversely if my question is not immediately answered but someone joins the room later that could have answered it, how would they see it?

If I make a post here on Lemmy, it's open and around for anyone to answer it for some time. Theoretically it's around forever but in reality it's more like however long it shows up on people's feeds but either way it'll be longer than a few minutes or seconds.

I've got a new device and set up matrix in schildichat next (element). It doesn' have the keys in many rooms. How do I force it?

Announcing a groundbreaking collaboration between Element and BigBlueButton, marking a significant step forward in the realm of video conferencing technology in the education sector.

Just wanted to share a bot I wrote since I hate listening to voice messages. Maybe someone can use this, works pretty well for me. This bot will send you transcripts of audio files sent to you. I'm using it in combination with signal / whatsapp bridges. Setup instructions are in the repo.

The are we sites I know of are:

https://arewemlsyet.com/

https://arewep2pyet.com/

Greetings :)

I have been actively looking for a good free open source Discord alternative with end-to-end encryption for a while now, and I have come to the conclusion, that Matrix with a client like Element might be a good choice. My only problem with Matrix (using the Element client), is that while there are voice and video call rooms, they work as they would in a traditional messenger or Skype/Teams/Zoom/etc. The use case of my friends and I is to have Discord-like voice channels where one can drop in casually and even stay there alone for hours while others see who's currently on the channel and choose whether to join or not, depending on who's on the voice channel.

Is it planned to have this functionality in Matrix or Element in the future? I could only find this issue on GitHub regarding my use case. And if not, is there a Matrix client that has this functionality? And if not, would it be possible to add this functionality by only changing the code of the Element front-end?

Edit/Update: I have raised this question in the #element-web:matrix.org Matrix room. I got an answer: The use case or feature I have described is still being developed and an experimental version is available as a Beta feature.

• On the browser the experimental feature is under: Settings → Labs → New Video rooms
• On the desktop app it's under: Settings → Labs → Join the Beta (joining the Beta enables the "New video rooms")

From when I tested it, the experimental feature shows the amount of people currently connected to the video/voice call/channel, but not who those users are. I assume that will be added in future.

Either way, thanks for the community for clearing that up for us. As soon as this feature is in the official version, I will try getting my friends from Discord to Matrix. In an initial transition phase probably with Discord-Matrix-bridges.