this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
175 points (99.4% liked)
Technology
80503 readers
3535 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I do think the EU should start with a more basic app like FluffyChat in testing but rebranded, then try to make their own app over the Matrix protocol that fits their specific communications needs and share that development publicly with open source.
Didn't XMPP already solve these issues a long time ago?
This is a case where federation is nice.
It's good to have an easy model for communication between members of different trusted organizations without requiring everyone to create a new account on a different server.
XMPP is federated
Any matrix client available for both android and ios with video conference capabilities?
....
that might have sounded a bit too aggressive. My question is genuine. Family members needs.
Yeah. Compared to Teams, Matrix is fine. It's just far from a powerful tool built by people who actually give a shit.