My laptop is getting old and i can’t have Element eat up half of my RAM. There are many more clients out there but which one is good? aka "the best? ;-)

My requirements: lightweight, encryption 100% supported, active development/community. runs neatly 24/7 in the background.

Should also support the latest features, let me customize when to get notifications: priorities / muted chatrooms. And ideally also look clean and run on the Pinephone. But that’s optional.

I don’t care which desktop environment or cli.

What do you use?

  • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Have you tried Nheko? I switched to XMPP some time ago, but when I used matrix Nheko was my goto. Also gomuks is another choice, runs in terminal

      • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        Better native client support for the most part, but xmpp servers also show themselves better (faster, more stable…) than matrix.org I think more matrix users should consider using smaller instances tbh

        • IceMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for sharing, I’ll check out XMPP too - last time I checked was 10 years ago :D probably a lot has changed

        • Gamma@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I look forward to the day that Synapse is deprecated in favor of Dendrite or Conduit.

  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I was using NeoChat for a while, but IIRC it doesn’t support encrypted historical messages, so you’d have to get it set up and keep element around for searching history…

    NeoChat has the benefit of supporting OIDC which my server uses exclusively, otherwise I would have given Fractal a look as well.

  • Certainity45@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    Try gomuks. It’s cli written in go. Highly configurable and if your terminal supports images, it’ll show them too.

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks. I’m halfway through installing all of you people’s recommendations. I’m a bit disappointed in the way encryption is handled in matrix. I’m again running into issues. gomuks gives me its fingerprint but element doesn’t do that kind of verification any more. Guess I have to try more client until I find one that combines all kinds of verifications and I can get encryption set up and connected between them.

  • pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think it will meet all your requirements (besides being light-weight), but I’ve been using weechat-matrix for a week and it’s been fine. Without this, I wouldn’t use matrix at all.