Yeah, the way is to test it with a client that wants to use it. Element X can only use that, as I know, so if it can’t log in, that means you probably didn’t set it up correctly

Glad that it worked!

Don’t forget to set up secure backup, though!
For the sake of simplicity I didn’t tell before, but without that you can lose keys when you stop using an old device of yours.
This is because your old device may contain keys that other devices don’t.
Your new phone, but generally every client app only downloads encryption keys for messages that it has tried to load at least once. This means, your new phone does not have the keys for old messages until you scroll up to all of them, and if you log out of your old device, or factory reset or lose it, you will lose those keys.
But when you set up secure backup, it uploads all of the keys to the encrypted backup store, and you’ll not lose any of them.

One more thing. If you still have the old phone, and you have not logged out of the client that you used, open the app there and it will send the keys to your old device, but only for the messages for which your new device has noticed that it doesn’t have the keys.

To get all the keys through to the new phone, the easiest is to set up secure backup once (on any of them), and then verify both devices.
If it does not happen instantly, go to the “security & privacy” menu and it’s “encrypted messages recovery” on your old phone, and have a look at what it says. It should say “all keys backed up” in the second row.
When that’s the case, click “restore from backup” in the same menu on the new phone.

When this happens, it means that the client actually is unable to decrypt the messages, and can do nothing about it if it can’t obtain the keys somehow.

You have 3 options to fix it.
I’ll assume you’re on android.

The best is to go through with verifying your device. Then your other devices - those which have the encryption keys, the server doesn’t and that’s the point - will send all the keys they have to your new phone.

If you don’t have those devices, but you have set up secure backup, then the server actually has all your keys for safekeeping, but they are encrypted with a password that you provided (this is separate from the login password).
In this case you should be able to restore the keys by verifying your new device that way. It happens through the same dialog.
It’s very, very recommend to set up secure backup, for everyone.

The third option is that if you have exported your encryption keys in the past, you can import them back manually. This is kind of the same as the automatic key backup, but this is stored where you choose instead of your homeserver, and it’s not being made automatically.
Your can use the same menu for exporting and importing this way that.

If you don’t see a banner asking you to verify your device, all 3 can be done in the “security & privacy” menu of the settings.

Matrix is newer, afaik it is used by more foss projects for communication than xmpp, and it has a more widely accepted standards base for things compared to xmpp, where I have often heard that it has multiple different implementations for things like voice calling and encryption which are incompatible with each other. Don’t take my word on it, but I hope that at least by reading this those interested can search for the issues and whether they are valid.

But then, what do you mean by xmpp being easier to host? I’m not familiar with XMPP hosting.
Matrix requires a home server, and a database server. If you want voice calls it also needs webrtc voice infra.

I could totally see a law banning this in the public

Isn’t production JavaScript usually minified/obfuscated to make it hard to read?

Somewhat, but often it’s still readable. Or maybe I just don’t look at it often enough to notice the worse cases…

Also wasm is actually bytecode, which I believe has a 1:1 conversion into a text-based format called wat.

That’s good to be aware of, thanks!

Yeah, me too, but lately Nitter almost never works :/

Honestly I’m better off this way, personally. At least javascript is text, and very often readable after pretty printing and debuggabke as a user, I’m not comfortable with loading basically opaque binaries for websites.

You can try to read through https://archive.today . It’s a site archiving site, it has a couple of tricks to evade such restrictions. Not the most private one… but better than visiting twitter directly.

Maybe Microsoft responded just now to their inquiry

That, but they couldn’t even insert the advised parameter to the command themselves, instead they had the capacity to basically demand improvement to the documentation, from those “filthy ffmpeg developers”

Also, did you install all updates? Did you already accept Edge as your new web browser?

He made various moderation improvements, such as removing content from local communities when a remote user is banned or purged

Does this mean when a user is banned, all of their previous comments and posts are deleted? I understand the usefulness of the change, but I think this maneuver could get rid of a lot of useful information too, be it a misclick, a temporarily high tempered staff member, or user behavior that goes against instance rules but do not warrant deletion of their content (because they were not a spammer, neither a serial liar).

When the user is unbanned, is their content restored, or it is unrecoverably deleted on a ban?

Also, about the last part: does that mean that when the remote user has been banned locally, or when they are banned on their hosting instance?

I have thought about that too, but I’m pretty sure the user has difficulties even before that, like they are copying one by one and then deleting from the old place.

But considering the shrug face at the end, and I also think there’s something wrong with this bug report, I have a feeling that this is not even a honest issue.

There are many instances which have “stuck by” Lemmy for years, such as hexbear or lemmygrad, and none of them ever showed the sort of entitled attitude that beehaw admins have.

Interesting choices. Often it doesnt seem like they would be using the more advanced moderation tools anyway. Its just natural that they dont complain about something missing they dont need.

I don’t understand. Can’t they send images and gifs?

I don’t think unmounting in itself does any difference to it’s longeviy. I think what you want is powering it down.

You said on your PC, but don’t forget that the server should be accessible 24/7

Neither of the other options are mandatory, and the strange thing is that you support the one that is besides being mandatory it is also deadly, if you’re in the system at the wrong time. You think that the possibility of making friends counterweights the high chance of death and life long injuries, and that’s just crazy.

If nobody wants to do the job, maybe the solution is to make it more attractive, instead of making it mandatory.