Google have been quietly de-listing #XMPP apps from their Play store one-by-one for made-up reasons. Today they finally came for Conversations (https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929074071688694 ).
@fdroidorg doesn't have these problems, and they additionally rebuild from source, supporting reproducible builds (so unlike the Play store, you know the published source code matches what's in the app you download). With their recent enhancements (https://f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.html ) I'll be recommending it to more people.
@fdroidorg @mattj huh, and this on the day we learn from @isotopp via Fefe what a trashfire Matrix is… wish I could say more people should be interested in Jabber, but I have my grievances with its unreliability as well.
@mirabilos
> via Fefe what a trashfire Matrix is…
Is this what you're talking about?
https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/13/the-matrix-trashfire.html
@mirabilos
Just to be clear. Because it's more about Element the application than Matrix the protocol itself.
I didn't have these issues with Element either — probably because I went with the default matrix.org, it didn't even have a list of servers to choose from at the time 😄
Valid points nonetheless.
