yes, that would be ideal, but at any point in time we will have newcomers, for them it won't be obvious
WhyJiffie
joined 2 years ago
Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.
you are largely overestimating the capabilities of the average consumer. most don't even know on a surface level how the internet works, and what dangers it poses.
encryption wouldn't solve the problem, just raise more questions. how is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? these are non-trivial questions that have to be asked in an encrypted system where encryption is not just a gimmick or a marketing buzzword.
having encryption and "secure!" plastered all over the box and the phone app does not mean anything, especially when you need protection against the manufacturer.
but but why would you do that?
It’s not a power-user device so no, you don’t get all the fancy custom ROMs and such,
most people don't need custom roms, contrary to good free software apps that don't steal your and your friends data through you.
but for doing all the normal phone things, I’ve not had a single issue.
for that, literally a dumb phone is enough, and will last longer than any iphone or android. if android enshittified to the level of iphones, I would refuse to buy anything than a dumb phone, maybe not even that.
idk, I think it's sensible that it's part of room history. also, other platforms do that too.
what is not sensible is that loading them is slow, but I don't experience that even in popular rooms
I was asking to find out if the slowness could be because your server does not support sliding sync for some reason (the newer faster sync method that doesn't try to load everything), but matrix.org does. I don't use that server anymore because they are way too overloaded for years, but maybe that's the issue here too.
can I ask which homeserver are you using?
On Discord, I open the app, go to a server, and can see all the rooms and all the messages almost instantly.
On Element (at least on Android), chats from different communities intermingle with my groups.
are you using the spaces feature in element? that's the same thing as discord "servers". they are on the left, unless you have none yet. the default setting in element is a bit silly, you should turn off showing rooms from all spaces when a space is not opened, it'll be much better.
on phone the space list is at the bottom.
I tapped on a large and slow-moving group, and watched messages slowly lurch into view as most of the messages were "join" and "leave" ones.
which app are you using? element X, or the old, plain element? the old app is slow, the new one should work much better in that regard.
you can also disable showing name change and membership change events if you don't care, but membership is good to be aware of and shouldn't be a problem with element x
honest question, what is there to understand? it sounds you already got through registration so you are through the hardest part which is choosing a provider.
schildi has mostly the same look, but has extra settings.
I think there's a setting in element web/desktop to hide rooms in the main list when they are in a space, did you try that?
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no, it was for everyone.
the point was not to explain how encryption works, but to paint a picture about how many details matter a lot, so that the reader can know that just some kind of "encryption" does not mean much