<![CDATA[I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs.]]>I managed to get my close family using for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. For the most part, it has worked pretty well!

But the 2 biggest complaints I have are:

1) key mgmt is soooo hard for people who are "non-technical" to understand and do consistently. So many times someone got a new phone, traded in the old then couldn't read old messages on Matrix

2) Android matrix app notifications are totally busted for several folks. We can't rely on this for fast comm.

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Idly wondering if I should try Fluffychat again after dealing with delayed notifications every few weeks on my de-Googled Android 🤔

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xethos.net/users/xethos/statuses/116458949788337194https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xethos.net/users/xethos/statuses/116458949788337194Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:22:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:33:51 GMT]]>@craftyguy
In my experience the google-push service works quite well with the playstore element-x version.
I dont know whats wrong with unified push, but it never worked relaible for me with matrix.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/homo_particeps/statuses/116458758572901716https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/homo_particeps/statuses/116458758572901716Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:33:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:22:38 GMT]]>@craftyguy Backing up the recovery key to a password manager works but making people use a password manager... That's a challenge in itself

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/przmk/statuses/116458714474226992https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/przmk/statuses/116458714474226992Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:22:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:09:57 GMT]]>@craftyguy@freeradical.zone same here, but not yet six years 🙃. Those two issues stop me from promoting matrix to more people.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chrichri.ween.de/o/0950d81a28c94ac180b5352cdcca8ff8https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chrichri.ween.de/o/0950d81a28c94ac180b5352cdcca8ff8Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:09:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:26:27 GMT]]>@craftyguy Have you tried it ever since? 6 years is a very long time. Snikket is probably best for a usecase like yours.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/Lenni/statuses/116458257607945174https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/Lenni/statuses/116458257607945174Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:26:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:52 GMT]]>"but what about xmpp?"

We did that for about 3 years before moving to Matrix. At the time, OMEMO support was quite rough, especially on iOS. And XEP support was hit/miss for various clients that people would install.

Every time I ask folks to switch to some new chat tech, I burn some serious "capital" with the family. So like, I gotta be 200% confident the new thing we switch to is better at meeting our requirements 😅

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