What is your experience with Riot? Is it worth switching to it? Currently using Discord
Riot chat client
Ian Ward
Cameron Fisher
>Riot chat
>Decentralised, encrypted chat & collaboration
Is it open source? No
Can I run my own servers? No
Is it decentralized? It uses a god damn website, no.
Thus, its a scam trying to disguise itself as what Tox was trying and failed to be.
Christian Miller
>Is it open source? No
>Can I run my own servers? No
Fake news
Julian Cox
Literally all of that is wrong.
Charles Torres
prove it, faggot
Benjamin Hughes
>is it open source?
yes
github.com
>can you run your own servers?
yes
digitalocean.com
Elijah Brooks
and yes op Riot is way better than Discord.
is discord botnet? yes
is riot and matrix botnet? no
Jace Murphy
I run my own Matrix homeserver and use the Riot Android client (native, not JS) from F-Droid.
Zachary Gutierrez
Okay so after looking over everything, its just basically an IM server that has the option of encrypting messages.
Is this a wrong definition?
If true, why the fuck should I bother? I can do the same thing with telegram, wire, signal, yo mama local backpage chat app, ect.
Jack Kelly
easy to run your own server, open source protocol. and yeah it's a messaging app like signal or telegram but those apps could be botnetted.
Christian Murphy
Wire is open source, end to end, and allows for calls and is waaaay easier to use.
Why shouldnt I use wire instead?
Camden Reed
riot can do voice and vid calls too
John Sullivan
>Telegram
Proprietary server code, even thought the protocol itself is open (for how long though?).
>Signal
>Wire
"apps" owned by companies, that isn't a problem except there's no way they can make money and so they will inevitably be bought by Facebook.
Matrix is the only truly open protocol, too bad the name sucks.
Kevin Scott
Tried to get my friends to use it when I was desperately trying to get away from discord. It's got feature parity with discord but the UI for them was pretty bad. I was willing to put up with it if it meant getting away from dickshit, but they weren't. Shit like being unable to see who was in voice chat within a chat, and who was joining or leaving, was the biggest dealbreaker. I'm hoping within a year or two when it's polished up a little nicer it'll be a valid option to move to.
I appreciated that I could use the android version without having gapps. That's already a win in my book compared to discord.
(You)
Retard.
Hunter Cruz
It actually works. The UX is the worst part, and it's not that bad 2bh
Also, video calls are not encrypted yet.
Juan Stewart
All you fags aren't appreciating the protocol, it literally has the potential to become the standard for all IMs. Think eMail
Kevin Cooper
why don't they market it better
Isaiah Moore
Tox still exists and still advances.
Toxcore 0.2 was released recently, and an upgraded qtox using also was.
They might be moving at a snail pace, but they're far from dead.
And... it is pure p2p. Distributed (not just federated) and end-to-end encrypted by design (contact addresses = contact pubkeys, all sessions encrypted by unique session keys for full forward secrecy)
Tox's still the best.
Nathaniel Adams
>is riot and matrix botnet? no
Matrix is not botnet but Riot is riot.im
Cameron Baker
i think that's the privacy policy of the website not the application
Eli Bennett
>i think
Try actually reading it