Matrix

A frequent activity that my closest friend group likes to do is spectate on single-player games played by one person via screen-sharing (and we're mostly introverted so no Twitch for us lol; plus, that's Amazon's playground anyway). This is where Discord unfortunately reigns supreme: its screen-sharing is somehow absolutely fantastic and near-flawless.

I recently learned that Matrix has screen-sharing through this Discord age-verification article, which may be enough to finally make the push for my friends to consider Matrix; how is it in comparison? Does anyone here very frequently use it?

An analysis of an excellent report into the use of consumer messaging apps within the Australian government.

Notable things:

Synapse

By default, only server admins may add a room to a homeserver's public rooms list.

Element X iOS

This week we’ve been monitoring the TestFlight of version 25.03.2 which is our first build of the app with Rust’s event cache enabled. There have been numerous fixes in the SDK following all of the feedback we received and we’re planning to make a second TestFlight next week with all of these fixes incorporated.

matrix-rust-sdk

The Event Cache (matrix_sdk::event_cache) is a new API that stores all your events. It now supports lazy-loading, and thus provides an improved offline support, but also a much faster user experience. Before adding more features, we are tackling the last bugs. And, oh, how nasty they are. We can group the patches in a couple of categories.

Old devices? Low-end devices? You're in our hearts and you're not forgotten! A couple of patches improve the performance and reduce the memory usage greatly!

The memory usage of a Client has been reduced by a factor of 65'536 times

SqliteEventCacheStore is 35 times faster, yup, you read it well

cross-posted from: https://feddit.is/post/55738

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40505844

Matrix is an open-source decentralized E2EE messaging protocol.

Here are the european instances you can sign up at:

🇬🇧 UK: matrix.org

🇫🇷 France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr

🇩🇪 Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat

🇳🇱 Netherlands: bark.lgbt

🇦🇹 Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee

🇫🇮 Finland: pikaviestin.fi

For desktop use Element

For mobile use Fluffy Chat

Let me know if I missed any instances and I will be sure to update the post.

As of 2025-03-02, the matrix foundation has not released a single financial report despite being a non-profit.