I have moved my communications to SimpleX for very similar reasons.

I always found Matrix to be extremely clunky because of key management for rooms and stuff like that.

I'm used to using cryptocurrencies. I know how to manage keys, and yet I was constantly getting hit with the same issues with decryption of old messages, even when I properly saved my keys and imported them.

I figure if I'm not even able to use this thing properly, knowing and understanding technology, how do I expect people I talk to to understand how to do it properly?

Then, on top of that, I found out about all the metadata leaking to your home server. Sure, your communications might be encrypted, but if the sender, receiver, reactions, timestamp, etc. is not encrypted, that's not good.

I still have it on my device, but it very rarely gets opened anymore.

Edit: I use a combination of signal for those I know, IRL, and simplex for groups of FOSS enthusiasts, etc.

The awful spam was the reason I left, I got mass invited to rooms with really nasty names, and there's no way in the client to mass ignore invites, you have to go to each one and click ignore.

That wouldn't be the end of the world, except their client seems to rely on waiting for the server to respond to an action in the foreground, so every time I click ignore it sits there processing for like 10-20 seconds before I can click the next one. There's no select all, there's no way to just rapidly tap ignore and have it process in the background like it should be doing.

Also they said even after banning the accounts, there's no way on their end to remove the invites the banned account sent out.

Overall it's just painful to use, the clients are bad, the moderation system doesn't work (what kind of system lets 1 account send out thousands of invites?? It should have auto-banned them within the first 10 or something), their cleanup system doesn't work, and everything just feels slow as molasses.

it's crazy, we'we had no issue with matrix even though i was sceptical at first and there was some teething issues, but we've onboarded non-technical users no problem.

the main thing is, we don't federate.

Seeing lots of dislike for Matrix lately. Hosted a Synapse server for many years, never had issues with encryption keys, but have to agree that Element the company (formerly Vector, but they now control the protocol too?) rolls out more new things than they fix old ones. E.g: Element X is slower and calls are not backwards compatible (!). Synapse server keeps getting some (corporate-looking) auth stuff added while on-boarding and registration for plain accounts on self-hosted servers is still a pain. To give them credit, Element app is consistent across platforms (for purposes of convincing people and troubleshooting), and bridges work pretty well.

But it seems any self-hosted solution has its can of worms.

XMPP, being old, implements all modern-expected functionality as extensions, and servers are not guaranteed to have them (common argument). Spam was an issue as well (but simplicity of the on-device and server database allows easy message and attachment deletions). iOS clients for XMPP are meh and require integration with Apple push servers (Snikket and Monal do that, but for how long?)

Tried SimpleX years ago, loved the idea, but it was going through growing pains. In the same vein as metadata leaks for Matrix and XMPP, if you host your own SMP server with a few users, that exposes some info vs using default servers (along with thousands users)

Commenting on the incident, Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said: “If simply being visibly Jewish is enough to provoke such a violent attack – if a family cannot safely move through public spaces in this country – then the legitimisation of hatred and antisemitism has become viral. This is about everyone’s freedom being at risk. Holding on to respect and dignity for every person is the only path that protects us all.”

Yah, well let us start with Palestine and the Palestinian people, Noemi. These incidences are purely perpetuated by Israel's actions. This statement shows zero self-awareness of the plight Israel is causing in the world.

He says in the article he expects it...

And he has for years:

Among other things, Noemi Di Segni, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, alleged that ministerial support for revenge attacks on Arabs and other minorities in the name of Jewish identity had made it “impossible” to be a proud Jew or Israeli.

“The pride we feel toward Israeli institutions must continue. It cannot become a thing of the past,” Di Segni said during an event at the Spanish Synagogue beneath Rome’s Tempio Maggiore.

Di Segni appeared to refer to increasing settler violence in the West Bank amid a wave of Palestinian terror attacks. Last week, extremist settlers responded to a terror shooting in which two brothers were killed by rampaging through the Nablus-area town of Huwara, setting homes and cars on fire. One Palestinian was shot dead and several were badly hurt.

timesofisrael.com/italian-jewi…

It's just now he's apparently forgotten why everyone is so mad at Israel, and who spends millions on propaganda conflating Israel with the Jewish religion

As an American Ashkenazi Jew i have very little sympathy for my people left.

Almost every act of "antisemitism" i see is an attack against someone who is supporting the Gaza genocide.

Also the IDF is using American tax dollars to spam social media to conflate antisemitism with antizionism

Any moral Jewish person left needs to be condemning Isreal and Zionism.

Edit: oh wow this one wasn't a Zionist. Hopefully Netanyahu is shot soon so things like this stop happening.

I get that being against Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank is not in itself anti-Semitism. That's clear. Lots of people in these communities like to emphasize the point that being Jewish and supporting Israel's actions are not the same thing.

Then something like this happens, and the mask comes off. People in this community think this man has some duty to fix the Palestinian crisis before he can expect to walk around in Italy with a kippah on.

Conflating Jewish people with the action in Gaza is anti-Semitic. Don't bullshit us on other threads how you're focused only on Zionism if you're not going to condemn this here. And spare us the "I don't condone it, but I understand it" crap too. You understand a racist mindset too well.

This story seems extremely fishy to me. This guy is claiming that an entire group of strangers including transit employees just lost their minds and grouped together to violently assault him at the mere sight of a kippah? That seems extremely implausible and reminds me of the other recent incidents where Israeli men were running around a neighborhood assaulting people and making death threats toward residents before the residents turned on them. The media just reported it as "Jewish men attacked for being Jewish" before the real story came out days later.

If the situation were really this bad in Milan, this would be more that just a single incident against one individual.