Comment by goatsi
6 years ago
>I need a chat application where I can have a client that I can use in my terminal, and Signal doesn't do that
Have you looked at signald or Signal-CLI?
https://gitlab.com/thefinn93/signald https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
weechat-matrix is really nice
It doesn't support encryption.
When comparing to signal, or indeed to any modern chat client, you need to call out when you are mentioning non-Riot clients that don't support encryption.
In the original article you did this well: when you claimed "no fragmentation," the next sentence explained that the claim didn't apply to encryption.
In general, matrix feature-boasting about things it can do without encryption is confusing people. Most new users are coming to matrix expecting encryption, and they get it. But then matrix advocacy presentations proceed from the ridiculous assumption that open-source chat without encryption would be interesting as something to move onto, while hiding this assumption. Please stop doing this to preserve your credibility.