That's true, but cross-signing is right around the corner for Matrix [1], which will enable e2e by default in direct chats [2]. Encryption is useless for most

That's true, but cross-signing is right around the corner for Matrix [1], which will enable e2e by default in direct chats [2]. Encryption is useless for most public rooms, and actually counter-productive most of the time. If the room is public, anybody can join it, idle there and save the logs on their computer, or publish them. Activating encryption is just annoying: from the top of my head, you can't read what was posted before you joined (unless someone sends you their keys), search is client-side only, it's hard to link to attachments or reuse mxc: (matrix content such as images) from one channel to another. [1]: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2714 https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2714 and the two links below [1]: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10605 https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10605 and associated labels [1]: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+cross+sign+label%3Across-signing-sprint https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is... [2]: https://matrix.org/blog/2018/11/02/user-experience-preview-end-to-end-encryption-by-default/ https://matrix.org/blog/2018/11/02/user-experience-preview-e... [2]: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6779 https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6779