The error message shown by rooms with m.federate: false is useless

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

Try to invite someone on a different server to an m.federate: false room, you get a 'you have no permission to invite' but it doesn't tell you why

What happened?

You get a 'you have no permission to invite' error message. And it only tells you why buried as the second line of a text block in Advanced settings, where no normal user is going to look.

What did you expect?

Explain more clearly the why this failed

Operating system

n/a

Application version

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How did you install the app?

n/a

Have you submitted a rageshake?

No

[ara4n]

correction: it does tell you about m.federate, buried as the second line of a text block in Advanced settings, where no normal user is going to look.

[turt2live]

I don't think this needs design. We just need to fix the error message to understand what unfederated rooms are. We currently assume any M_FORBIDDEN error is a generic permissions error:

[turt2live]

related: element-hq/element-web#22102