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1 year agoTrillian was just a UI that put all your contacts in the same window. You couldn’t talk across protocols, or merge the same user contact across multiple protocols.
Think of Matrix as a unified protocol from which AIM, MSN, ICQ would have all been based. And so if someone is on AIM but you registered on MSN, you can still talk. And at the fundamental level, it looks like IRC. It is the opportunity to re-baseline everything on a standard that is open and supports end to end encryption.
So while bridges would be needed today, the idea is that some time in the future these services would re-baseline on the Matrix protocol, or be displaced for whatever market reason by a startup that chose to baseline on Matrix.
I use CalyxOS on my Fairphone since 2022. It is better than the stock OS and allows re-locking the bootloader. It also provides timelier updates than Fairphone OS. It is absolutely fine and has zero issues.
I have one banking app that doesn’t work. Another one that does work. Also, I have paid purchases through the Google Play Store that do not see the subscription. I was going to let them expire anyway. I also have a Google One that doesn’t see the subscription, so none of the advanced editing features in Photos works. I assume all of these would be problematic on GrapheneOS as well.
I would run GrapheneOS if I had a Pixel, or if it supported the Fairphone.