Crosspost: https://feddit.de/post/8502102

Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?), plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

My team recently tried RocketChat, but E2EE is obviously an afterthought for that project as it has even more limitations than non-Element Matrix clients (no searching, no pinning, no file upload, no edit, etc.). Plus Jitsi integration seems to be buggy right now (at least on my Windows installation).

What else is out there that’s not on my radar? Is Matrix with Element really the best option right now? Is there no project that puts E2EE above all else?

Edit: Should be self-hostable and (FL)OSS.

  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Correcting some misconceptions…

    Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels

    That’s true of regular Element for Android, but it’s being replaced with Element X (which is built with Rust). I would expect search to be added there if it isn’t already.

    and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?)

    I have done it in Firefox, so that’s false. Perhaps you had trouble with a specific browser?

    plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

    Nheko handles E2EE just fine, so that would seem to be false as well.

    Since you’re looking for recommendations, it would help if you said which clients you tried and what problems you had with them.

    In case you haven’t seen it, you can set a Features: E2EE filter on this list:
    https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/