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)?

  • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
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    2 days ago

    One issue is: As rooms are decentralised, if someone posts illegal content and your server downloads it, that could lead to legal trouble, especially as you’d then also host it.

    The encryption often fails, leading to the meme “Message cannot be decrypted”.

    • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      One issue is: As rooms are decentralised, if someone posts illegal content and your server downloads it, that could lead to legal trouble, especially as you’d then also host it.

      That should only be an issue for media though shouldn’t it, since all plain text can be set up to be e2e.

      The encryption often fails, leading to the meme “Message cannot be decrypted”.

      Is that still the case, I have been using matrix for about a year now and I haven’t ever had an issue sending and receiving except for a day which the vector.org servers were down. I hear that hosting a synapse server is a pain in the ass, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.