Just a heads up, that I mostly quit using Matrix except for a few topic-specific and heavily moderated servers.
Why? The main chat server matrix.org has a child porn/CSAM 'problem'. Due to lack of moderation in many of those rooms, along with protocol problems, these sorts of CSAM spammers can do an hours long image campaign of stuff that's illegal to even have. Theres nothing quite like waking up to a post every 10 seconds of felonies in a cybersecurity or Linux chat, and the summary clean and get the hell out of those rooms.
Banning also doesn't work, due to distributed nature of rooms. You can be banned from matrix.org room but connect through a different server, and they can still spam users.
If you do want to be on Matrix, I would recommend a few changes.
1. Don't stay on matrix.org chatrooms. They are the worst hit and slow to resolve
2. Disable image preloading and downloading.
3. If you have private servers and rooms for friends, its the best.
As other commentary here says, there is a real and alarming problem with spam in public rooms on the public server. On the other hand, a private server with just people who trust each other is fairly phenomenal.
However, TFA seems to be in general about an upgrade to fix the following: "“state resets”: scenarios where Matrix’s state resolution algorithm can give unexpected results".
If room states become more stable, that is great.
Thanks to the Matrix team for all their efforts. Much gratitude.
I feel like what's missing is not decentralization, but an open source offering to have large servers with e2e encryption. The cost of running a server doesn't have to be high.
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 27.8 ms ] threadWhy? The main chat server matrix.org has a child porn/CSAM 'problem'. Due to lack of moderation in many of those rooms, along with protocol problems, these sorts of CSAM spammers can do an hours long image campaign of stuff that's illegal to even have. Theres nothing quite like waking up to a post every 10 seconds of felonies in a cybersecurity or Linux chat, and the summary clean and get the hell out of those rooms.
Banning also doesn't work, due to distributed nature of rooms. You can be banned from matrix.org room but connect through a different server, and they can still spam users.
If you do want to be on Matrix, I would recommend a few changes.
1. Don't stay on matrix.org chatrooms. They are the worst hit and slow to resolve
2. Disable image preloading and downloading.
3. If you have private servers and rooms for friends, its the best.
Are there any normal web viewers to show what's in the public chatrooms without needing to join matrix and use the app etc?
However, TFA seems to be in general about an upgrade to fix the following: "“state resets”: scenarios where Matrix’s state resolution algorithm can give unexpected results".
If room states become more stable, that is great.
Thanks to the Matrix team for all their efforts. Much gratitude.