Agreed. To few people manage to take another perspective and distance from their use case and technical abilities.

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Wishful thinking.

I‘m sure one of Musk’s underage geniuses will take over as a oneman-army 😂

wiljd - https://www.wijld.com/

Okay. Plants instead of trees. It was a false friend, thanks for pointing out. Striked tree out for good measure.

Cotton is cheaper. It grows on trees plants, which implicate better availability and easier procurement.

https://wishlephant.com/

The prices are the way they are because it is real wool, which doesn’t grow on trees. If I take a look at other wool pullovers/sweaters from other companies they range from 80-130€ some peeking at about 200€.

So it is that particular material and thus product, not the company that is pricy.

Companies also use Threema for secure company chat. But again, my point was: Matrix is not the solution to any use case. That simple.

I know german schools forked fluffychat for their students. Also German Army opted for Matrix/element. Still, all on an organizational level.

It was and is, all the time (since day one at r/buyFromEU).

The question is: what is it an alternative too? Slack, rocketchat, mattermost… WhatsApp, Threema, Signal.

They got different selling-points and making an account and fiddeling with verifying clients is none of WhatsApp or Signal.

I would like it very much as an organizational chat solution, but I would wan’t to onboard clueless users like my family 😬

A bit more explanation from whom?

I really struggle with so boild down posts as Signal, Threema and Matrix are the three that get mentioned a lot lately, but they aren’t equally easy to use, nor is their feature set equal.

For example: in terms of data privacy I would rate them Matrix, Threema, Signal. In terms of usability and ease of use Signal, Threema, Matrix. Also Matrix works more like a business chat replacement (e.g. for slack, teams, …).

Using all three actively, I often get the feeling that recommendations are not based on the needs of the people the recommendation is made for. 99.99% of the users just want to have a messaging App without instances and login procedure. And I’m quite sure a vast part of those using Lemmy are already in the remainder that know about Matrix 😅

Anyhow, for everybody else there are nerdy overviews like https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

Might be a case of bad wording, as far as I know they are obliged to provide 5 years of updates (if they want to sell in EU).

Kay. Running grapheneOS for that matter. Thought fairphone come cleansed, too… the more you know.

De-googled, isn’t it?

I’m curious where this project is heading after the political decision of terminating one heads/CEO contract after only 6 month.

https://www.heise.de/news/Digitale-Souveraenitaet-Bundesinnenministerium-serviert-ZenDiS-Chefin-ab-10349053.html

November 2025 is still quite a stretch and I’m sure as any good European project this will be postponed 😬

Actually I would exempt a lot of frameworks of criticism. They’re in vast parts open-source and somewhat not commercial. In my opinion if they don’t add to tracking they’re good to use.

It would be another cup of tea if they rely on (meta) AI-services like all the buyFromEU-Apps do. They are unironically using gemini and GPT for processing.