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WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is it user friendly to non devs ? I haven't been able to find information regarding it.

Any suggestions for using matrix ? Is it useful or nah ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not hard to use, but it's not as "idiotproof" like whatsapp or messenger. Once you have it installed and created account somewhere like matrix.org, it's quite simple.

Main benefit is you're not feeding advertisment privacy intruding behemots with your data by using matrix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok that's helpful. Anything you suggest? I pick a client and get my partner to do the same and that's it ? Then I start to get other people, my family and such to use it as well. Slowly and surely. Like with WhatsApp.

Then do they sell to highest bidder and I start over again or ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, we can only hope that decentralisation is good enough argument for not selling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So run into first issue. Picked element X. However I don't have an account. So I'm stumped. Do I need to create a matrix account first ? How do I do that ? Do I need to pick another platform or protocol first and then backtrack?

Probably a reason matrix is a small community. It's not user friendly. No chance in hell any of my friends or parents would even bother after the first roadblock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would decides though