https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

The matrix foundation tracks components (clients, servers, SDKs, etc.) and their respective maturity and repos on its website.

For mobile devices, Fluffychat is the main mature alternative to Element X. And Fluffychat actually puts private use cases first afaik and looks/feels more like Signal/WhatsApp as compared to Element X.

Different POV:

I work on large Matrix-based state infrastructure which includes collaboration with Element. In my experience their team has integrity and is competent, though the UX aspects of especially Element X could progress way faster. Imo this is in part due to the fact that their key customer segments are no longer private individual users but rather large public bureaucracies in Europe going after digital sovereignty.

Imo the key point is: You are not choosing Element but Matrix. Element is just the most well-known of many client-side messengers implementing the open standard Matrix. While Element is very active in the Matrix foundation, they cannot unilaterally change said standard.

Imo moving to matrix is a great move for personal sovereignty, even if the protocol itself is at times a little resource hungry and quirky.

Die von der Fakultät beanstandeten Stellen bezögen sich auf 2,58 Prozent der Wörter der Arbeit. Weder Voigt selbst noch die drei ursprünglichen Gutachter seiner Dissertation seien im Verfahren persönlich angehört worden. […] Die Vorwürfe beziehen sich nicht auf unbelegte Textübernahmen, sondern auf Quellen, die der Doktorand ungelesen und ungeprüft übernommen haben soll.

und selbst unter veränderten Kriterien wirkt das in der Sache ziemlich (politisch) herbei konstruiert

This won’t happen. It’s a deeply unpopular policy and the German Institute for Economics just told them in a friendly town to kill the idea before they choke on it. It was just a dumb suggestion with little bearing in reality

I wouldn’t want to input my personal data on the self-hosted website of some random person.

Also, frequently there are official petition websites for national and European bodies, predominantly parliaments, that will actually force parliaments to discuss the issue instead of just screaming into the void.

The Canadian prosecution and courts absolutely need to squash this. Sub-state actors goin on random adventures like this causes war down the line - in fact we had a 30 Years’ war about that.

Same

No reason to let the perfect be the enemy of the good though. As you said, pretty much anything is better than WhatsApp

Depends. Signal is the strongest competitor within that niche, but overall both will only grow if they capture marker share from WhatsApp; which is perfectly feasible as they are in principle perfectly viable substitute products and it’s mostly the monopolistic pressures of WhatsApp’s preexisting user base. In my personal experiences, Signal, Threema, Matrix, etc. see use within relatively closed bubbles (i.e. I moved my family over to signal, or a work project team uses Element for Matrix, etc.). But more and more people you run into in Germany already have a second messenger that is not owned by Meta in their phone and I would hence expect that WhatsApp’s market share will drop over the next few years. Signal imo has the lead here as it works with phone numbers too, so you don’t need to know someone else’s handle

Foe many of the federated self hosted ones you can just use the public instances; it’s about as freaky as using Lemmy lol

Yes but those things are being worked on including meta data encryption.

Also, strictly speaking you can migrate accounts, it’s just a little cumbersome and needs either some manual effort or separate tooling. I agree though that it should be considerably easier.

Any number of Matrix-based messengers fulfill most of those criteria; meta data reduction could be better but we’re getting there.

Also Signal is very decent alternative if you want a WhatsApp-like UX from a trustworthy source.

This reporting seems quite one-sided.

Mal schauen was daraus folgt, aber Rechtsstaatlichkeit und ein berechenbares Regelwerk sind halt unabdingbar für alle alle Branchen. Man kann Spielchen mit Lobbying spielen und versuchen die Details im eigenen Interesse zu beeinflussen, aber wenn der Industrie die Lieferketten wegbrechen und ein einzelner Typ jederzeit willkürliche Entscheidungen zu Zöllen und tausend anderen wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen treffen kann, hätte ich auch keine Lust mehr zu investieren. Das meiste Geld verdienen die meisten Leute wenn’s keine Zölle, keine Monopole und keinen Krieg gibt.

This is the kind of petty logic you’d expect from a schoolchild.

It also reveals something chilling about his power-oriented world view: In Trump’s mind, there is no such thing as an ‘independent committee’ that the Norwegian government might defer to regarding who gets the nobel peace price. He presumes that of course any government could seize the authority to influence who gets the price, so the Norwegian government’s obvious decision not to intervene in Trump’s favour is implicitly seen as a decision against Trump. In Trump’s mind, there are no rules and there is no such thing as a pluralistic society that practices self-restraint and shares power.

Aber echt, Merz redet hätten wir aus we Pandemie nichts darüber gelernt was risikoreiches Verhalten in der Verbreitung von Infektionskrankheiten ist.

Würde mir eher Sorgen machen, dass unser gesellschaftliches Klima so fremdenfeindlich und kühl (geworden) ist, dass die meisten Meisten nach ihrer Ausbildung nicht lange bleiben wollen.

Ein Freund aus Lybien hat mir erst gestern erzählt, dass sein Bruder (der seit 15 Jahren hier gelebt hatte, Uniabschluss, etc) samt Frau und Kindern nach Ägypten ausgewandert ist nachdem die AfD bei Bürgermeisterwahlen stark abgeschnitten hatte und seien Töchter immer häufiger auf der Straße angefeindet und bedroht wurden.

Bringt uns auch nichts kompetentes Pflegepersonal zu haben, dass es dann aber kaum länger als paar Jahre hier aushält

While Israel bombed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon this week, it seems to me that that’s part of an ongoing disarming effort which is locally driven and supported by the Lebanese army.

You never know of course and I’m not an expert, but as the Lebanese government has only just now tenuously consolidated its monopoly of power within its own borders with the support of Israel, that’d be a strange development.

Sounds like they are preparing for a strike on Iran which might result in counterstrikes by Iran in Israel and Lebanon

Messing with national elections.

Giving campaign speeches for far right nationalist parties. Supporting Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, etc.

Pouring money into ad campaigns and propaganda on social media, either overtly or covertly.

Boycotting EU institutions while offering too-good-to-be-true bilateral deals to individual EU member states which can again be used as an electoral platform for populists.

Aaaaah yes I see, now I didn’t get that that was supposed to be a Venn diagram