Re: Privacy Respecting Replacement for facebook groups

2020-10-01 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode)
Once again, it is important to remember that if you want to use Matrix in a free and privacy friendly way, it is not recommended to use New Vector clients, such as Riot/Element for example, because some of them contain non-free code (here Electron) and encourage the use of non-free / privacy

Re: New video: The University of Costumed Heroes

2020-08-10 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on freenode)
Thanks for that new video. It is pretty, well designed, clear, and the end is so satisfying x) I think it could spread the word by making subtitles for more langages than just english. I could do that translation for french and german, if there is a need. Thank you for your

Re: Matrix communication protocol.

2020-08-04 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode)
Thanks for this link, this is clear ! Le 3 août 2020 19:07:34 GMT+02:00, Jean Louis a écrit : Mostly I am in agreement with Adrien. There is this review that I found, that you all may find it interesting: [1]https://wiki.404.city/en/XMPP_vs_Matrix For me XMPP does so many things, we

Re: Matrix communication protocol.

2020-08-04 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode)
gt;functionality and modern features that I have first hand experienced >users caring about. Which features are you talking about ??? >MSavoritias > >On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 01:01, Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode) > wrote: >> Matrix is a badly designed protocol (especia

Re: Matrix communication protocol.

2020-08-03 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode)
Matrix is a badly designed protocol (especially the s2s part) and is not more modern than XMPP. In computer science, be young is not always a quality for a protocol, and XMPP has proven many times it was evolutive and reliable. The XSF point of view is different from the

Re: Matrix communication protocol.

2020-08-03 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on freenode)
popularity On 31/07/2020 11:12, Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode) wrote: For instance, Conversations is in the FSD, as confirmed free software. [1][1]https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Conversations.im I don't understand your statements. XMPP is used by major companies like Whats

Re: Matrix communication protocol.

2020-07-31 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode)
For instance, Conversations is in the FSD, as confirmed free software. [1]https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Conversations.im I don't understand your statements. XMPP is used by major companies like Whatsapp for example, if you need a proprietary one (so Facebook use it).

Re: Matrix communication protocol.

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Bourmault (neox on Freenode)
Hi, I can add that riot for desktop is built on top of Electron, which is non free. Librement, Le 24 juillet 2020 10:37:14 GMT+02:00, Msavoritias a écrit : Hi, That was my assumption too. Especially as there is a request for packaging riot in the Guix Libreplanet page. From