• What do you mean specifically by encryption key handling? You log in, confirm it with one other device, done. Don’t see where I ever used technical knowledge?

    I agree there are weird glitches und sometimes bugs, but they mostly get fixed. Mostly :d

    • You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it’s nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn’t), then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything, doesn’t really tell you what to do about it, and you have to reconfirm with a 2ne device all over again (which, again, had better be nearby).

      •  ono   ( @ono@lemmy.ca ) 
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        You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it’s nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn’t),

        Your devices don’t have to be nearby to verify them. You can enter a key backup passphrase instead.

        then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything,

        That’s not normal. Looks like you ran into a bug. Did you report it, so it can be tracked and fixed?

        I gather from their weekly reports that they’ve been fixing encryption bugs lately, and that the clients now in testing (the Element X code base) seem to have them solved. You might want to try those, or one of the third-party clients.

      • Yeah, I do wish they just let you disable encryption for all rooms at a server level. But years ago people gave the team so much shit for not supporting encryption that they added really good encryption, but it makes things harder. Nothing is free.