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European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams (www.euractiv.com)
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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've always heard matrix was so so at best. So this seems unwise.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Matrix is good. Element is not. It is a terrible application filled with bugs that ends up limiting the quality of other client applications.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I do think the EU should start with a more basic app like FluffyChat in testing but rebranded, then try to make their own app over the Matrix protocol that fits their specific communications needs and share that development publicly with open source.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't XMPP already solve these issues a long time ago?

[–] ohnomorelemmy@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is a case where federation is nice. 

It's good to have an easy model for communication between members of different trusted organizations without requiring everyone to create a new account on a different server.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 2 hours ago

XMPP is federated

[–] JonnyRobbie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Any matrix client available for both android and ios with video conference capabilities?

....

that might have sounded a bit too aggressive. My question is genuine. Family members needs.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah. Compared to Teams, Matrix is fine. It's just far from a powerful tool built by people who actually give a shit.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard element, the common server software and even the protocol itself are also simply meh as well ... That's not a great start... And the name alone is a huge problem for adoption

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Element the server suite is fine - it's just a version of Synapse with rust and Python bindings.