somewhat lethargic post: how's matrix (the chat infra) going these days? i/we are looking for alternatives to telegram (for obv. reasons) and signal, which is almost ok but suffers (at least for me) from loss of history when migrating devices/installs and diversity of clients, i.e. still no official arm64 desktop client. is matrix 2.0 already there, and how stable is that stuff? or is there something else you'd recommend? (deltachat?)
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- It's based on E-Mail, so it's federated & self hosting is easy, but one can simply use posteo/riseup/systemli etc.
- All major platforms are supported, there's even a client for ubuntu touch
- It's using Autocrypt for encryption which is trust on first use pgp. You can scan QR codes to verify keys. It got security audited multiple times.
- Groups work really well and are also e2ee, saw groups with 50+ people and no problems. People can join via a link/qr code or simply be added. There's no permission system, so everyones "admin" which is anyways good for family/friend groups.
- Support for voice messages/images/videos/reactions etc, you can even have little apps for shared shopping lists/polls which are basically little sandboxed html/js apps
- Of course open source, funding received through OTF/NLNet/Prototype Fund, no VC
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