2026-02-20 07:30 UTC
@Frisk@woof.tech @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org
At least one point I do have to grant to Soatok though even with my expertise, despite terrible choice of repositories he has chosen as representation for his blog post, Matrix ecosystem does have an issue with using depreciated Olm library which again, is a security library still used in clients such as nheko and Neochat (both of which are the only ones I currently consider using).Migrating off libolm is these clients' developers' responsibility, I'm not sure where foundation can help here.
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@Frisk@woof.tech 2026-02-20 09:05
@ShadowRZ @matrix Agreed, never said it's Matrix Foundation's direct responsibility, I said it's ecosystem issue. While foundation could in theory offer expertise and help in implementation of new API which would benefit entire ecosystem and is within foundation's interests and mandate, I don't believe small security team of MX has the resources to do so. It's unfortunate, however, how at least in case of nheko (my client of choice) I feel like this issue has been neglected and downplayed by the maintainers. Though it is all volunteer developed software so I can hardly expect anyone to spend their time on this.