Someone asked me how to install Matrix on Android, so I told them to search for Element on the Play Store, but the app there looks scammy. It’s listed as “Element X — Secure Chat & Call” by New Vector Limited, with 4.4 stars and only 644 reviews. Is that the right app?
I installed Element from F‑Droid, but I don’t want to tell someone to install more than one app just so we can communicate.
Updating: Using that package there was an “Unexpected error: Missing CSRF cookie”
What’s scammy about it? It has 2.9 stars in my gstore area. Never trust a random rating from “stores”.
https://f-droid.org/packages/io.element.android.x https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.element.android.x
And schildi
https://f-droid.org/packages/chat.schildi.android