@anthropy They have tried, actually. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHzh2Y7BABQ.

Public groups are almost never encrypted (Element will warn you against doing so) but being public makes no technical difference. The problem is if you have a group that has tens of (maybe all selfhosted...) homeservers operating under different conditions, with clients operating under different conditions...

@nycki It should be said that, at least on Element, changing your account's display name or avatar seems to override all custom nicknames and avatars for rooms... I don't know if it's the case on Cinny but it is something to be aware of. Other than that, yeah, it's the best alternative out there... (See also https://joinmatrix.org.)

@anthropy I rarely see it as well (when I do see it, it seems to be federation lag), but I also know that I'm using a well-maintained public homeserver (not matrix.org and not selfhosted), interact with people on other well-maintained public or selfhosted homeservers (yes, I have like a few 50-ish-people encrypted rooms), and have just one session on Element... There's just too many variables and there's a luck factor in getting things right (especially for non-techies).

Due to the ongoing thing I've been getting a lot more visits to https://joinmatrix.org, so thank you for considering #Matrix! Feel free to use my guide to onboard your #Discord friends, and let me know if you got any questions or advice on improving the guide!