I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future! The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not …
Whoa now, author sees a censoring filter as a most basic feature of a free and open chat infrastructure? It’s not a social media client, you know? It was made for closed groups like governments and companies.
I use Fluffychat to talk with family and friends and for that it’s good.
Matrix is commonly used for public, discoverable rooms, much like IRC or Discord. Perhaps it’s not good for that use case, but the author seems to wish it was.
An effective spam prevention approach is a basic feature of any public communication service that reaches a certain size. Perhaps keyword filtering as the author suggests isn’t the right approach, but some rate limits would help:
Private messages from a new contact could notify just once until approved instead of once per message.
Servers could limit the number of outstanding message requests, with a low limit for new accounts.
Whoa now, author sees a censoring filter as a most basic feature of a free and open chat infrastructure? It’s not a social media client, you know? It was made for closed groups like governments and companies.
I use Fluffychat to talk with family and friends and for that it’s good.
Edit: ok, looks like spam really is a problem.
After seeing the screenshot they posted of the barrage of notifications they received with repulsive group names/messages I can’t say I blame them.
I mean, one compromised account leading to a massive influx of spam is a legitimate concern.
You can’t always assume “happy path”.
Matrix is commonly used for public, discoverable rooms, much like IRC or Discord. Perhaps it’s not good for that use case, but the author seems to wish it was.
An effective spam prevention approach is a basic feature of any public communication service that reaches a certain size. Perhaps keyword filtering as the author suggests isn’t the right approach, but some rate limits would help:
Or something like a “permission to send broadcast messages” the room owner needs to grant you?
It really needs audit tools. Many organizations/communities use matrix as communication tool and suffer from spam problems.
For example: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-council-tickets-ticket-530-csam-on-matrix-request-for-council-legal-resource-support/154401