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by justaj 1084 days ago
This is almost completely broken on non-GCF (Google Services) phones. I've seen message notifications arriving 12 hours (!!!) later.

For those users it's recommended to use Matrix clients alongside something like https://ntfy.sh/ , which sends push messages to your phone. However, one could then also ask: What is the need for Matrix in that case? I suppose end-to-end encryption would be one argument, but you could also encrypt message (contents) client side with something like GPG. So, I'm left wondering what really is the benefit of Matrix for those users.
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aaviator42 1084 days ago
The need is convenience, of course.

Are you really going to encrypt alerts your servers are sending you with GPG?

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justaj 1084 days ago
Super sensitive ones, yes. It's usually just a matter of copy and pasting the ciphertext into a GPG app and then see it get decrypted.

Other common and non-sensitive notifications (like "Hey there's an SSH login on this machine!") I don't encrypt since I see no reason to having them encrypted in the first place.

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