I want to migrate my friends to self-hosted Matrix server I have for some time now. The problem is, that all Android clients seem missing for me. Element is too buggy (especially for encryption) and has bad UX. Element X is still experimental and lacks core features. FluffyChat has most features and nice ones like stickers, but calls or location sharing is here as a placeholder but not really working.

If you migrated someone to Matrix, what client did you found out to “be working” for people not caring about protocol? Because I care for protocol and can stand some bugs, that others could not.

  • Qkall
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    6 months ago

    so unfortunately, you can’t log into your matrix account, but rather it creates a @username:beeper.com account. Which (if you bug them) you can use to log into your favorite matrix client. but you can then join our favorite rooms and chat folks using normal matrix commands.

    • oranki@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, you can use Element web and reset the account password using “forgot password” to use the beeper homeserver, but OP is asking about Android clients

      The Beeper client is 100% not usable for Matrix-to-Matrix messaging, I don’t think it even supports e2ee, but I have heard they’re working on it.

      • Qkall
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        6 months ago

        I’m talking about the android client for beeper but have used it for nheko…and it does support e2ee. I use it for all matrix convos and rooms. Maybe something changed in the time you last used it and I signed up, but yeah not having any e2ee issues once I verified the key