Fuck Off, We're Full



If you've been on Matrix for while, you may have noticed the considerable drop in quality of newfags, you aren't alone. The average OOB Matrix user has devolved significantly in the past few years, from a 8fag/techfag, to a chanfag. This has had innumerable negative consequences on the quality of users and rooms on Matrix. **There is nothing of value on Matrix for newfags without a referral**, Matrix has speedran IRC syndrome. If you were directed to [[wiki:newfriends|wiki:newfriends]] or [[wiki:homeservers|wiki:newfriends]], you should either use your own brain to figure out how to use Matrix, or go back to Discord, where you belong. **Matrix is not a "privacy-focused" or "secure" messaging platform**. If you were intending to use Matrix with the expectation of privacy, you should use [[https://getsession.org/|Session]] or [[https://delta.chat/|Delta Chat]] instead. If you are being directed to Matrix with the implication that you can avoid “feds” or “glowies”, then whoever is directing you in is [[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/matrix-encrypted-messaging-app-governments|most likely]] [[https://element.io/blog/element-brings-matrix-to-europe|a fed themselves]]. If you want to fedpost or call in bomb threats due to schizophrenic delusions, do it elsewhere. **Matrix is not a private protocol**, it is akin to Bitcoin, where **every single transaction you make is fully traceable and permanently stored. Matrix is not a secure protocol either**, as has been proven from the incompetence of the various OLM implementations written by the Matrix Foundation.
Newfags should not be blindly directed to Matrix without a thorough understand of how the Matrix protocol works. The Matrix resources provided by the Glowers Wiki have ultimately done more harm than good, since nobody seems to read far enough to get to the various disclaimers regarding Matrix's security and privacy claims. If you are //still// looking for a good resource to show new Matrix users, then here's a list: - Matrix is **not** a private protocol. Everything you post and create exists forever. This is basic Internet 101 shit - The native end-to-end encryption built in to most Matrix clients is **not** secure and [[https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197|shouldn't be trusted]]. - Matrix is not a fed-free paradise and never was, take your 3D firearm rooms somewhere actually secure. - Matthew is a faggot and so is everyone else at the Matrix Foundation. Even ignoring their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs#cite_ref-20|Amdocs and Mossad]] connections, they are a bad actor within their own federated platform. - Most users on Matrix take from Matthew. - Have fun with a chat platform that lacks even the most basic of user safety or moderation tools. Yes, there are fixes. No, they will never arrive since they're all stuck in MSC hell. - **Bonus:** Self-hosting does not alleviate any of these problems, it only adds to them. Have fun trying to maintain homeserver implementations that are slow, retardedly designed, and trivially easy to abuse thanks to being an implementation of a protocol that is trivially easy to abuse. === Alternatives to Matrix === * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat|IRC]] * [[https://xmpp.org/|XMPP]], although it's also filled with faggots. * [[https://delta.chat/|Delta Chat]]. Like WhatsApp, uses your existing Email account * [[https://getsession.org/|Session]]. Similar to Signal, built using [[https://oxen.io/session-lokinet|Lokinet and $OXEN]] === Matrix Resources === * https://spec.matrix.org/latest * https://github.com/vector-im/element-web * https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse * [[https://static.element.io/pdfs/element-user-guide.pdf|element-user-guide.pdf]]