• Cover_czar@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Matrix is good for personal communications too The us companies made you to use phone numbers for chatting Id’s are convenient

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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        2 years ago

        I mean, sure, you can use Matrix for personal chats. It’s perfectly secure, but it’s not as easy to use as Signal. For example, if I told my grandma to install Element and send me her Matrix ID, she would be really confused. Signal is very easy to use, and the user experience is basically the same as on mainstream platforms like WhatsApp. I also don’t think that the phone number requirement is a US thing, as Telegram also has it. Signal only requires phone numbers to prevent spam, but they recently introduced usernames, so you don’t have to give people your phone number in order for them to message you.

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          2 years ago
          • You can schedule messages
          • Have supergroups, subgroups, broadcasts, admin roles in groups,…
          • Channels can be configured in various ways. For example, you can post messages and choose the type of previews links render.
          • You can add voting options to posts
          • Members of the channel can only reply in threads so the replies are bundled.
          • You can decide wheter new group members can view chat history or not.
          • Members can be muted.
          • Bots can be built withing the app
          • Chats can be arranged in folders *…

          I could go on.

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      It’s not great if security is your main goal for organizing, but it has a better user experience than most chat apps. Especially if cross platform chatting is important to you.