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Why would anybody use Matrix after reading https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html ?
by jmakov 5y ago
Why would anybody use Matrix after reading https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html ?
- trasz 5y agoThis article seems all about a particular implementation, not the protocol.
- Kinrany 5y agoThe only section that doesn't end with "we suspect foul play but did not investigate" is a citation of [1], so might as well read that instead. [1]: https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-matrix.org https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-mat...
- jeddy3 5y agoThat article makes it seem like private servers unconditionally sends metadata to official servers (is this really the case, seems odd?) Other articles mentions sending metadata only to servers you have users from (which of course can be a problem, but at least is explainable).
- remirk 5y ago"Why would anyone use X after reading a critic blog post about it?"
- Saris 5y agoThis doesn't seem to have any reasons to avoid matrix that I can see. The whole bridges section is strange since that's set up by each homeserver admin, and you can just.. not do that.
- Arathorn 5y agoPerhaps because the vast majority of points in the article are obviously false or exaggerated out of context? Needless to say Matrix servers and clients don't send any data (private or otherwise) by default to central servers. The only central services we have are the identity lookup service (i.e. map phone number & email to a matrix ID), which is strictly opt-in and various anonymous stats reporting (which is also strictly opt-in).
- TroisM 5y agoMatrix/Element is the most promising messaging platform from a privacy standpoint, but I wish that they didn't chose Electron for building the Linux client...