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Why I Trust Signal: My Go-To for Secure Messaging - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
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[-] ctag@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

I think that's fair, maybe I should have said efforts like Matrix.

But I'd also view a singular commercial company's no-cost product as not being a long term bet on privacy/anonymity.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But I’d also view a singular commercial company’s no-cost product as not being a long term bet on privacy/anonymity.

Oh I completely agree with the idea that a federated service, like Matrix ^[1]^, is far preferable to a centralized one, eg Discord ^[2]^; I have no issue with using Matrix (I personally use it extensively) I just think one should be careful with the idea of using it with the intent of being anonymous.

References

  1. "Matrix Specification". Matrix Foundation. Version: 1.12. Accessed: 2024-12-09T06:41Z. https://spec.matrix.org/latest/.

    Matrix defines a set of open APIs for decentralised communication, suitable for securely publishing, persisting and subscribing to data over a global open federation of servers with no single point of control. […]

  2. "Discord". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-12-07T05:34Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:03Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord#Features.

      • The license is listed as "proprietary". This was interpreted to mean that Discord is the owner of all of their infrastructure.
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