jakecopp

Looking forward to hearing about the story behind this :D

I'm looking forward to seeing the open source/federated alternatives fill the space.

I can see Telegram broadcast channels (or Signal/Matrix groups with only sending permissions for admin) filling the void for people who'd like to "microblog" short updates like a blog, but just for friends.

I wrote an article comparing the algorithms and usability of different cycling apps!

https://jakecoppinger.blog/articles/the-best-apps-for-bicycl...

How could a review service without an associated company/service be built? As in through some decentralised mechanism?

That seems like properly hard problem - reviews aren't objective facts like OSM data & verification/spam would be tricky.

Matrix supports mobile great - you don't need to run a client all the time.

It's well worth trying Element or FluffyChat on iOS/Android.

It's a shame this doesn't support or bridge to Matrix.

I see on this beta announcement there are a number of mentions of Matrix: https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta...

Matrix clients have it: https://element.io/blog/element-launches-e2ee-location-shari...

Think of how much cheaper per kg it is to _prevent_ new plastic entering the ocean rather than pulling plastic from the middle of the ocean!

Why on earth are we pulling ~100s of kg while there is still 8.8 million tonnes entering the ocean each year?! [1]

aka Ocean Bound Plastic, I've seen a few products use it (but I don't know how to go about certification): https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_apc/better-world/sustainabil...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution

Rocket Chat is also migrating to Matrix on the backend!

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/30/welcoming-rocket-chat-to-...

Matrix supports bridges to most of these apps: https://matrix.org/bridges/

See https://www.beeper.com/ or https://element.io/element-one for a hosted product, or use https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy to self host.

Looks great!

Are the threads compatible with threads in the spec that Element is adopting?

This sounds like a fascinating social medium/"platform". Could you share more about the community or an article about it?

I tried sending you an email but it bounced!

Note this was written in March, but provides a good overview on how E2EE would work with the DMA.

As an OpenStreetMap contributor I'm extremely grateful they are correctly attributing OSM (by the sounds of it).

There are plenty [1] of sites & apps (some quite large) that don't correctly attribute OSM data according to the legal requirements [2].

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attributi... [2]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220606055248/https://www.afr.c...

This is concerning:

> Only a small thing, but due to Signals strict phone-desktop pairing mechanism, when registering Axolotl, both phone and regular Desktop wont work anymore.

> Also, you cant use Axolotl on Desktop together with Signal mobile.

> After deleting the Axolotl registration I had to wait a while to be able to register on Signal again, I didnt loose any backups and my codes didnt change.

> Nonetheless a warning should be displayed at the beginning, that users wanting to use regular mobile (iOS, Android) and Desktop (Windows, macOS, Flatpak or Snap), they should use a second phone number for testing.

https://github.com/nanu-c/axolotl/issues/811

Matrix would be a lot more welcoming to a new client :)

If they start supporting Matrix this should be possible!

It would be awesome if they supported Matrix - you could then archive many things via a bridge (https://matrix.org/bridges/).

Yeah! I'm really supportive of their services.

I've found their maps are very slow here in Australia (I assume their infra is Europe based), and the I find the geocoding frequently gives me objects in other countries when I know OSM has an object with that exact name in my map view, but I check up on it every so often.

Mapbox has an API: https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data

I'm waiting for someone to build a Google Maps alternative (generic consumer oriented) product with Mapbox, their maps (OpenStreetMap based) are awesome.

Apple Maps only uses OpenStreetMap in some places I believe - if anyone knows exactly where I'm very interested to hear!

If you check the attribution, mapy.cz is an OpenStreetMap consumer!

(I also do a lot of OSM mapping, so I know my edits when I see them :D)

I quite like SchildiChat (https://schildi.chat/) for it's unified chat list on desktop! FluffyChat also has this layout on mobile.

Since Element has recently got chat bubbles I'm enjoying it more though.

My understanding is Matrix uses the same crypto algorithm as Signal but a completely different architecture to support federation and not require phone numbers.

How does Session compare to Matrix? Why another encrypted chat app that doesn't federate?

This was also my first thought - it reminds me of some Matrix based note taking apps.

See the Matrix blogs at https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix/ to see how these projects have been progressing.

I think there is space for another paid competitor also built on Matrix!

Has anyone considered building something like this for Matrix?

There are lots of open-source communities there, I imagine it would be helpful for debugging (and discovery of Matrix itself).

And the battery life!! My first Pebble still had about 7 days of battery life after ~6 years of use, just unreal. I think it was rated for 10 at launch. Seeing 10% battery usually means I'm good for a day, maybe two.

I'm on my second Pebble Time Steel now - I only had to get a new one because the waterproofing failed while I was surfing!

I've had two separate instances of strangers (in Sydney) coming up to me and bumping their wrist to my wrist, because they also had a Pebble and recognised mine. Really lovely community.

For those who don't know - Eric's new company, Beeper [1], is a proprietary Matrix chat client with hosted Matrix bridges to other chat platforms. The bridges are open sourced which is a huge contribution to the Matrix ecosystem.

[1]: https://www.beeper.com/

> For intra-business messaging, most companies seem to be sticking with proven multi-user protocols like IRC rather than XMPP Multi-User Chat (MUC), or are moving to more sophisticated proprietary collaboration platforms like Slack.

That sounds true as of 2015, however Matrix now has a large following in open source & in some governments & businesses. I can't find a list of orgs using Matrix but that would be interesting to see.

I haven't heard of anyone that hosts both Matrix & Mail/Calendar/Contacts.

That would be a really interesting enterprise solution though - effectively replacing Slack/Teams for internal comms!

As far as I understand, the new EU Digital Markets Act [1] will support this - forcing big platforms to allow interoperability.

Awesome for platforms like Matrix [2] which are all about supporting federation and bridges to other services (such as Signal, which is hostile to federation [3]).

[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/interoperability-without-...

[2]: https://matrix.org

[3]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/