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29083011397778·Oct 15, 2021
If that's the bar, then mobile Linux is simultaneously very fucking far, and dramatically closer than most people might think. As far as messaging apps, they're all technically there - the best kind of there for the crowd that this would interest. Spinning up a Matrix server means maybe a days work for this crowd, which allows (and I currently use it for) Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram, and more. Even better, due to constant improvements by Matrix, the server is only getting lighter and your options more varied with things like Construct [0]. Email is there - one only really needs to ensure geary is set to scale to the phone screen. As far as gMail, I'd question what the overlap is between "Privacy conscious enough to use a Pinephone" and "Uses gMail instead of anything IMAP". That only leaves navigation and social media. For the former, I've
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used the mobile site in-browser on my Android phone that the Google Maps app was too heavy for. And for both on the Pinephone, especially the pro, Waydroid [1] is getting closer to closing the gap. To be honest, I could see it being mainstream for geeks within two years. Though that's unlikely what you meant by mainstream - which I think we can agree is several more years away, if ever. [0] https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct [1] https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid
In PinePhone Pro Announced
Arathorn·Jan 4, 2021
It does - the point is that anyone can spin up their own Matrix server (or pick an existing one) and get involved; they don't have to use the fosdem.org one. Separately, in terms of implementations: Dendrite is usable these days, albeit beta: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/08/dendrite-is-entering-beta, and meanwhile Synapse is stable. Conduit (https://conduit.rs) is making progress on federation (and works for simple use cases), and Construct (https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct) exists too.
In Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
Arathorn·Jul 23, 2020
There's a lot of stale/wrong info here. I'd say that we have pretty healthy competition in homeserver implementation these days. The four options currently in active development are Synapse (Python), Dendrite (Go), Conduit (Rust) and Construct (C++). In terms of Synapse (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse): originally the initial prototype for Matrix, historically it had performance and architectural issues given we were frantically implementing features to prove Matrix rather focusing on perf. Since hitting 1.0 a year ago though things have improved massively. Almost all of Synapse scales horizontally; we've switched to Python 3 and have almost finished switching to asyncio (improving perf and maintenance massively); and lots of schema perf issues have been shaken out. Unsure what you're thinking about w.r.t. "restart its synchro
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trons", but that just sounds like a bug that got shaken out years ago. Dendrite (https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite), meanwhile, is in very active dev by the core Matrix team - there was a long hiatus while we had to focus exclusively on Synapse, but since the beginning of this year there are folks working fulltime on it, and it's looking super promising as a very microservices-driven model, with each service scaling arbitrarily horizontally, connected via append-only logs. All the P2P Matrix work is built on it (running it clientside, as it's such small footprint). It's effectively in competition with Synapse, and worked on by different teams. It federates today and can be run as late alpha, but the CS API is missing some features that we're currently adding. Conduit (https://conduit.rs) is the new kid on the block, written by the community in Rust, using a strictly monolithic structure for now, using Sled as a key value store for storage. It's incredibly fast, and has impressively good CS API coverage (including E2EE, whereas Dendrite's E2EE support is only landing this week), but federation work hasn't begun yet (which is a bit worrying, as you need to design/build with federation in mind from square 1). It has a great community though, and is entirely independent of the core Matrix team, and you could say it's in competition with Dendrite. Construct (https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct) is a C++ server using rocksdb for storage. It's a community project entirely independent of the core Matrix team; it federates, and has extensive CS API coverage, but unfortunately the project's author has been incredibly antagonistic to the core Matrix team over the years, which makes it rather hard for us to comment further. TL;DR: Matrix homeserver dev is in a good place right now :)
In Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
MayeulC·May 7, 2020
Oh, and there is construct as well, not to be forgotten (C++ homeserver). It federates, and works with most clients, though it lacks a few features (link previews, a couple others). I've interacted with a few of its users over federation, though I haven't tried it myself. Compared to synapse's resource use, it seems completely anemic (I've read that the lead developer makes it run on a 800 MHz pentium, though that could have been a joke). https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/construct
In Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
feanaro·Feb 21, 2020
Ah, I did not realize you were referring to the software. In that case, there is also Construct[^1]. There are other implementations in the works, though progress is somewhat slow. Synapse is much better with regards to resource usage these days, though. The RSS of my instance is 355M right now and the CPU usage is hovering around 0-10% (15-min server load ~0.5). [^1]: https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct
In Stop Using Encrypted Email
jasonzemos·Dec 11, 2019
Others have better responses to the rest of these points; many of them are still significant issues though a lot has progressed over the last couple years. I can preempt one though by saying alternatives to Synapse like https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct are probably something more aligned with your interests. (disclosure: I started the project with kaniini). After more than two years in and around this space I'm still comfortable with stating that I'd take Matrix with all^wmost its flaws over ActivityPub. All of these protocols kind of suck. I see Matrix as having the lowest hamming distance between where it is and where it should be.
In Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
jasonzemos·Jun 12, 2019
Matrix is an inherently decentralized system. You can run your own fully featured instance on your own property. If the company behind Matrix is acquired, the foundation being announced here today stands in the way of the intellectual property becoming a toxic liability to your own use. This is very good news today. Furthermore, the openness of the protocol allows free software projects to emerge and exist independent of the matrix company and even the foundation. Such projects can be developed by your contributions and the FOSS community's support until the end of time. One of those projects, for example, is one I started [disclosure] called the Matrix Construct server: https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct and your support of this project is necessary to that end.
In Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
jasonzemos·Mar 12, 2019
Riot/Matrix is a chat standard, but it's not an open standard. I say this with melancholy as the developer of the only federating matrix server other than the reference server developed by the for-profit company (read: for-profit company) that controls the standard. I do it because this has the potential to be a great protocol and facilitate a great UX if the controlling party didn't alienate talent from its ecosystem. Matrix is a lot of gloss, a lot of hype and cheap talk, but under the hood it's deeply insecure and it's entirely controlled by a single person (again, read: a single person). And he is a fraud. He has lied about the userbase on numerous occasions; the company had its funding abruptly cut in 2017. It's now funded by scamcoin sales from a shell called status.im. Anyway, I think matrix has potential as a traditonal free softw
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are community project which can exercise some leverage against the controlling party, so that's why I still work on the Construct: https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct
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