I have been trying to figure out a way that my son can have a messaging account, that doesn’t track him and that we can limit who he has access to and who has access to him.
What are you thoughts on matrix for kids?
Are there any features available for that sort of control? I really only want him to be able to contact his family (and also indoctrinate him into matrix and open source young 😉)
Yeah, I was hoping that I could white list specific accounts (family). I can use my existing account, and it keeps it simple. The others end up walled gardens.
I’m on the same path trying to find a solution. Is it possible to just whitelist certain accounts without all the public rooms. E.g., I have my own instance, but want to allow a DM from friend@matrix.org without allowing public rooms or other random DMs?
As far as I can tell…you can’t. Debating just using XMPP instead.
What my perfect use-case would be:
- Private instance (@mydomain.org)
- Allow other instance USERS to be able to DM me (user@matrix.org --> me@mydomain.org and vice versa)
- NOT allow my instance users to join rooms on other instances (child@mydomain cannot join room@matrix.org)
But given how DMs are essentially rooms…I’m not sure that level of fidelity is possible
so, I could make a room called mum and dad, have it “private” and only invite the three accounts.
it could work.
