250 karma · joined July 16, 2016
They might convince me if they open their client and server code, but even then they're yet another walled garden only interested in keeping their monopoly by building inferior products and using regularly capture to prevent any competition from doing the same thing they did to MySpace.
Next stop, conquer the world!
If the missing features (that are clearly being worked on and probably will be implemented soon) are not a big deal I would highly recommend to start using riotx!
Either way, a DNS hijack is not great, but not nearly as bad as the initial compromise.
[0] https://github.com/matrix-hacks/matrix-puppet-signal [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
It works well enough for me, though I don't use SMS too often though.
What I did like is that I can add another account to a room such that I can monitor texts from both matrix accounts.
Of course the matrix IRC bridges are also quite good. I'm in a couple of bridged IRC rooms.
Matrix.org is still running, so no complaints there. You'll figure things out soon enough.
That's a number of 'ifs' there, though.
It does help that I host the server, so I don't mind talking without end to end encryption with people who can't figure it out.
If you prefer a more classical voice chat use mumble.