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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by montar@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Anone heard about it? Anything bad about security?

I've checked speeds with my friend, the're quite good, file transfer speed is insane compared to signal.

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

High resource usage

That's Synapse being bad and already having a tech debt. Matrix is surely more expensive to run than other protocols, but not much considering federated nature.

slow syncs

Being worked on with syncv3. New sync is crazy fast.

About encryption, it is also being worked on heavly.

The one bad thing I can say about Matrix is just how much is being "work in progress". But I would choose a protocol that is going to do my checklist than others that would never do.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

That's Synapse being bad and already having a tech debt.

No, I mean the clients.

element web consumes 2-3 GB of RAM according to about:processes when my matrix.org account with membership in a few dozen public rooms is logged in.

The android client is also as slow as nearly nothing else on my phone. It lags, so much that it's not rare that I have to wait seconds before a click gets processed to start opening a menu.
And that's how it is when the app is synced. While it is still syncing it's even worse.

Being worked on with syncv3. New sync is crazy fast.

I have element x. It still can take seconds until it is usable, like if I haven't used it for a while, on a fast connection. But yeah, at least it's not minutes.

While most of the known chat apps already work this way, I am sad that element x won't try in any way to store a copy of my messages on the phone for offline access anymore.