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  • I have read a bit about the Matrix protocol and once tried running the Synapse home server and Element front end which is also available as Android/iOS apps.

    Matrix is a federated chat protocol in the same way that ActivityPub is a federated social networking protocol. You can host your own Matrix compatible server and chat with people on other servers.

    Recently I watched a video about their recent progress in which they showed a chat working peer to peer over bluetooth low energy when devices did not have access to the internet. Writing this, I just watched another P2P demo video where they show off this functionality once again.

    This means you can use your own chat server as usual when

    • You have an internet connection on your device
    • Your device is on the same network as your server
    • Your device can find a P2P route to the other users through nearby bluetooth devices running this software allowing your device to route through other devices network and bluetooth connections

    Take all of this with a grain of salt as I am not completely sure I understand how the Matrix services work. I hope this helps.



  • Pretty cool!

    Tried it out for 15 mins and it seems like a useful tool to replace organisational tools like Notion. As I understand it; It synchronizes its data between devices peer to peer on local networks with the option to back up to a server if needed.

    Way better than other alternatives in a privacy perspective. The user experience was a little rough imo though. Very many details and the graph view was rather cluttery. It had the option to toggle some information off in the graph view, but I couldn’t really find a good setting that was both informative and not cluttered. Also, there were very many different types of views that were nested in each other when viewing pages. This confused me a little, but may become clearer if used for longer than 15 minutes.

    All in all; I love this type of technology. I will likely use this instead of Notion for the few projects I have.

    This has been my initial thoughts. Not a complete review. Try it out yourself! They have very good packaging alternatives.




  • I’m from feddit.nu, the swedish instance. Or at least one of them, there might be more swedish instances I am not aware of. I like it because I can find local content and post in swedish.

    I think everyone should aim to find a smaller instance where they feel like they belong to and create their account there.

    There’s no reason to have a federated system if everyone uses the same 3 large instances.