Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
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Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.

I’m thinking of moving away from US-based messengers.

Signal, telegram etc have the same problematic architectures. Of those kinds of solutions, I like Threema best, but nobody uses them (which is only a problem because of their architecture).

So I wanted to get a solution with a decentralized architecture, pretty much like the fediverse.

From what I can see, the fediverse activityPub with MLS layer project (to enable fediverse end-to-end encrypted messaging) is still in the functional documentation stage.

So, what do you think of Element as a messenger (which uses matrix protocol)?

  • Pip@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This all sounds very promising. Especially that they cannot unilaterally change the standard and that they have stable and high-volume clients. I’ll put together a list of client-side messengers implementing matrix.

    • Ontimp@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 days ago

      https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

      The matrix foundation tracks components (clients, servers, SDKs, etc.) and their respective maturity and repos on its website.

      For mobile devices, Fluffychat is the main mature alternative to Element X. And Fluffychat actually puts private use cases first afaik and looks/feels more like Signal/WhatsApp as compared to Element X.