Who exactly can see a private message on Lemmy? Anyone who runs a server? Or only the sending/receiving server?

And what all is your experience with Matrix? I don’t have an account, and imagine I would need one if someone wants to message me there.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    If Matrix were easier to use, I would convert my family to it, but frankly it’s simply not there. So we’re sticking to Signal for now.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 hours ago

      At this point matrix no longer makes any fucking sense. Signal and self hosted fluxer both handle the two levels of social/chat apps better then matrix ever could.

      Matrix just suffers massively from the classic open source problem of “what the actual fuck am I”.

    • bowsertattoo@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      signal is easier than matrix to get an account and chat, but matrix has better features for gaming, and also doesn’t require a phone number on a smartphone, which not all my friends have. i use signal for work, matrix for personal chats.