Matrix works fine for the friend to friend, small community things. Discourse forums too. Use Signal for family and friends, perhaps work. Fediverse and Atmosphere (Bluesky) for your microblog needs, and RSS to keep track of blogs.

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writtenone 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Having used Matrix for almost a decade, it's hot garbage.

Sync is barely working, "unable to decrypt" still exists, the encryption is flawed [0] and the whole thing is effectively just Element and everyone else follows their lead.

[0]: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matri...

	▲	bilkow an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		About the post you linked, see [1] and [2], which makes me question both whether that is an actual vulnerability (Signal, the messenger recommended by the author, also didn't have that check, and it's addition is absent from release notes and CVEs) and whether the post was made in good faith (the check was added to libsignal on the same day that the author disclosed the vulnerability to Matrix, which can be a coincidence, but doesn't seem likely given that the code has been there for years). Can't speak about the other issues, I haven't had those but I barely use it. Based on comments, it's clear they exist or have existed for quite some time. [1] https://blog.erinshepherd.net/2026/02/non-contributory-keys-... [2] https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/analysis-of-reported-issues-...
	▲	the__alchemist 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Element in particular is embarrassingly bad. (Consistently, for the past 5 years, through the present)