• belochka@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Any ideas why it’s always Matrix? Not even XMPP.

    With not very performant servers and not very rich choice of clients, and still work in progress. And notably more fit for group chats rather than anything private and secure.

    It’s just Matrix being popular?

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      18 hours ago

      xmpp sucks balls for this scenario. there are incredible footguns in encrypted xmpp, it wasn’t there from day one and mind you it’s intended for non-nixos users. they have migrated from threema

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        12 hours ago

        I suppose. NOSTR-based Marmot is being developed now, it seems more interesting for me than XMPP or Matrix, but it’s still a new thing.

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          5 hours ago

          i doubt that any national comms authority will want to have anything in common with nostr. big point of this thing seems to be that it’s on-prem (or at least in country) and with tightly controlled access

          other countries already use matrix for similar purposes (france, germany, estonia) army had their own deployment on similar terms (on-prem, controlled registration)

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      21 hours ago

      Maybe. Or they got the feeling to use a low-effort open protocol, that isn’t xmpp. I mean, they considered open whisper, for example, they would have to invest in a custom client.

      With matrix they slap a new sticker on the software and call it a day.