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What is the best FOSS Matrix client? (lemmy.ml)
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Looking for a good FOSS Matrix clisnt. What's your favourite and why?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cinny because its layout is very similar to Discord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fluffychat and Syphon are pretty good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I like SchildiChat the most, since it has a nice UI and supports both E2EE and calls.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fluffychat on Android mobile. Feels familiar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

0 clue what this no permission issue on Spaces is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Slow as shit tho. I like ittho

Alps will randomly rotate photos for some reason

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There isn't one.

Because none of them have all features.

My favourites however are Fractal for desktop and Fluffychat for mobile because they both allow for multiple accounts in one window/app and they look nice, and Fluffychat has features that make it more customisable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's kind of infuriating how there's really no great clients

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The same issue as XMPP, tons of clients each with partial support for features.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Or complete clients, doesn't even need to be great but incorporating all features would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Nheko is my favourite client, it uses QT and is written in C++, its lightweight and works well on my machines with low resources, it also respects my system theme

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Beeper is partially open source and I've used it for many years now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I used to use cinny, but i use fractal now just because its MUCH faster to launch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Cinny as a PWA, or Schildichat ( FOSS version )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@gwilikers I would use element and I do use schildi but its a bit controversial as a client so element if foss and best is criteria

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Schildichat is the only client I can use on my phone that implements both spaces and threads and doesn't have a memory leak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@thejevans umm element leaks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It does for me. And it has for over a year. I have to reset the cache every day or it slows to an unusable crawl. The web client works fine, though

Edit: github issue: https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/issues/6617

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The new Element X is written in Rust and thus memory-safe. SchildiChat Next is based on it.