I absolutely agree with the article. I moved my wife and I to a Matrix server that I control, with disk encryption on top of the Matrix encryption. Signal was

I absolutely agree with the article. I moved my wife and I to a Matrix server that I control, with disk encryption on top of the Matrix encryption. Signal was great for us, for a long time, but it was time to move on. I've even set up a Matrix chat server for my business for "office hours." The governments of the world have no right to see my comms with my (future) customers. And as soon as I can (when I have customers), I will be donating to the people who run Matrix. I'll probably set up a support contract. If you can set up a Matrix server for friends and family, do it. Also, I believe we as programmers have more duties to stop this tide of authoritarianism. I'm writing a blog post now called "Your Loved Ones Are Prisoners, and You Made the Chains" because yes, this is partially our fault. So we need to step up and do more to stop this.