I just left #whatsapp and #telegram for #fluffychat
Now it's time to pay back. I'll be fixing bugs, checking PRs and just give me a few weeks and also ko-fi-ing you my fellow hobbit @krille 🙏

@3rik Skulle gjerne gått gjennom alle oversettelsene, og fjernet sludre - forstumme i stedet for dempe er da også søtt? Og man trekker litt på smilebåndet … #FluffyChat

Another #HowTo, this time how to use #Signal on #Android without giving it broad media permissions.

Signal does not use the 2 possible secure methods of accessint photos that Android offers, and clones #Whatsapp in that regard.

By insisting on needing access to read all your images, while being a complex app connected to the internet, and the only official versions containing proprietary #Google #blobs.

Links:
- https://community.signalusers.org/t/46828
- https://community.signalusers.org/t/55725

Other messengers like #SimpleX, #Element, #ElementX, #Fluffychat, #Conversations, #Threema and more save themselves the effort and just use the builtin options, improving security by design and unnecessary code bloat.

So, how can I use Signal without trusting it with all my images?

1. Use the "Share" Portal.

That is the obvious one, and a very nice feature on Android. It allows to share any media to an application and giving it access to only that.

This also works across the #WorkProfile or #PrivateSpace and can be used by Apps like #SaveTo to transfer files.

The workflow is often slower than just using the media chooser portal, but it works. It is what I use since years.

2. Android hacks

But this is not all. Setting a profile picture or group profile picture does not work through the share portal. So we use a Feature specific to Androids Sandbox:

- All apps can save files to various default directories like Pictures, Movies, Music, Downloads, Documents; without having read access to it.
- And all apps can access files they themself saved there.

Combining these two features, you can send a picture to Signal and use the "Save locally" button to save it from within the app.

The result is that this picture will be visible in Signals internal gallery and can be selected for profile and group pictures.

Obvious downsides are
- it is a stupid workflow
- it duplicates images that you need to delete manually afterwards
- pictures might be compressed twice, losing quality

But for this very limited purpose, it is kinda fine.

Still, @signalapp please solve this very old issue!

Matrix使用入门基础——用户向 :blob_dance:

理念

所有的一切都是开源的、免费的！

本文以我自建的服务器Homeserver为例，URL为： https://chat.feddit.social ，fork版本为matrix-synapse

Matrix普遍用于去中心化，端到端加密聊天，可以通过自建维护Matrix实例，

Matrix的权限管理十分详细，

在Matrix上，你可以

• 和本服务器的用户 聊天
• 和在本服务器的聊天室的用户 聊天
• 和其他Matrix系服务器的用户 聊天
• 和在其他服务器的聊天室的用户 聊天

注册

注册需要一个非零时邮件(为了找回密码)，然后通过邮件激活账户

考虑方便程度，在此使用Cinny Web端

Fluffychat Web端没有注册功能，Element Web端访问不稳定

登录

注意！
自建的Matrix不提供聊天前端，代表不能和Mastodon一样，在上面注册登录发帖等，Matrix的注册、登录、聊天都需要依靠第三方客户端！

登录可以有多种方法，一定要记住把matrix.org换成chat.feddit.social（或者其他）

• 在PC上，推荐使用浏览器访问：https://app.cinny.in/login/chat.feddit.social

• 在Mobile上，推荐使用FluffyChat APP和网页版，Cinny网页版

  个人来说不推荐任何Matrix"官方"的App或者Web客户端，比如Element、ElementX

  更多客户端可以在此寻找： https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients （需要翻墙）

当你在另外一个客户端（App、Web）登录，会提示你需要验证客户端，这时候，你需要同时在两个客户端完成验证。

一般来说，在新客户端登录，为了安全是不会有个人聊天记录（群组另算，看具体设置）

如果登录后想要显示之前的聊天记录，需要在Setting打开Chat Backup，然后保存Es开头的恢复密钥！所以：

• 一定要好好保管恢复密钥
• 一定要记住恢复密钥保存的位置

下一次在新的客户端登录，就可以选择填写此恢复密钥恢复聊天记录

群组配置

我重新更新了配置，使你可以公开你创建的房间"Publish to Directory"，便于感兴趣的人加入

目前：

• Fluffy Chat(App、Web)不支持，只能搜索

• Cinny（App、Web，Cinny App 只有PC版）支持此功能，即explore群组

Matrix的设计逻辑：主要分为用户，群组，空间、子空间

1. 用户之间的聊天独立

2. 空间包括群组和子空间、子空间内不仅可以创建群组，而且还能创建"子子空间"...子子孙孙无穷匮也

提醒：

• 如果不是特别敏感的聊天，不建议开启"Room Encryption"，没有好好的配置前提下，会让你的多端聊天变得破败，而且此操作不能被取消！

就写到这里来，很多东西还是需要实际操作，学习起来更快

下期记录自己搭建Matrix-Synapse Homeserver

多次搭建过Matrix-Homeserver、本服务器已平稳运行2025.10.4——今日，可通过访问 https://chat.feddit.social/_matrix/static 确认服务区情况，也可以之间在Fediverse私信/回复我。

@worldboard @board
#matrix #matrix_synapse #linux #opensource #fluffychat #cinny #chat #聊天 #社区 #community #selfhost #selfhosting

Last night, I discovered you can mass upload emojis on #Sharkey and #FluffyChat. It makes things so much easier 😂

Last night, I discovered you can mass upload emojis on #Sharkey and #FluffyChat. It makes things so much easier 😂

Tried Fluffychat yesterday as alternative Matrix client on my Linux desktop and was very disappointed to see that i does not support image pasting from the clipboard into a chat and it seems not to be planed to be implemented soon: https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat/issues/915

It is a really nice client, also with multi account support, but thats quite a showstopper for me 😪

#fluffychat #matrix

@Tutanota dont leave out #fluffychat @krille

I found Matrix to works surprisingly well when using third party clients like FluffyChat and Fractal! They worked much better for me than the official clients, especially on Android :D #matrix #fluffychat

@krille
First of all, thanks for #FluffyChat. It seems to be an awesome Matrix client.

On the "Privacy" page, a push gateway is mentioned. It links to an archived repo: https://gitlab.com/famedly/services/famedly-push-gateway

Is this still in use, or is that an outdated information?

Di recente ho scoperto quest’app di messaggistica insieme a #ElementClassic e #fluffychat . E mi piacciono molto, ho scelto quella linkata perché rispetto alle altre due posso ingrandire il testo nelle funzioni di accessibilità e fare le chiamate, ciò che ad esempio su fluffychat (le chiamate) non posso… Vorrei tanto eliminare WA per far migrare (forzatamente) i miei contatti, ma dubito di riuscirci…

@internet

https://element.io/download

Here is a simple tutorial how to add a sticker pack in #FluffyChat. Will also soon be in the FAQ:

https://ko-fi.com/post/How-to-add-a-sticker-pack-to-FluffyChat-N4N01OXATI

@poldemo #FluffyChat doesn’t declare any personal data collected. But “declare” is key word here: on the #AppStore app privacy section is responsibility of the developer. Anyway I found FluffyChat much lighter than Element.

@krille I love #FluffyChat but I can't work out how to add stickers

The community does an incredible job when it comes to translation for #fluffychat and I really wonder how I could reproduce this success in other areas like help for issue management.

If the volunteers could help labeling issues, finding duplicates, close already solved issues, add missing information, warn and close unclear issues, that would be a big help. But this system needs to be made simple and satisfying so that people love to help.

Maybe with a bot that mirrors issues to matrix?

#FluffyChat just shit the bed, I tried to read an announcement from a while back and it just scrolled continually up, now my #continuwuity server’s not responding

Who needs (electron) Element when you have (tauri) #Cinny and (flutter) #FluffyChat ?

#matrix

is there an android matrix client that supports multiaccount that doesn't regularly have db errors that do random force logouts? (i.e. not #fluffychat nor #polyculeclient )

#matrixclient

https://fluffy.chat/gl/ :idioma: #galego

a aplicación máis feitiña para :matrix: [matrix]

Tes dúbidas? Mira as Preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Fluffychat (tamén en galego)

Está dispoñible para #Android (Play Store e F-Droid), #iOS (App Store), como páxina web e como aplicación de escritorio en #Linux (Flathub, Snap Store). Incluso funciona en móbiles Linux usando a versión Arm64 de Flatpak/Snap.

#im #matrix #fluffychat #mensaxería

#FluffyChat is actually pretty nice. 👍