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[–] Undertaker@feddit.org 54 points 7 months ago (4 children)

To clarify: eMail, web chats, gaming chats, Signal, Threema and so on are affected as well

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Self-hosted Matrix is obviously unaffected.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You say this but Matrix is largely centralized so it would be easy to get the biggest node to comply. Servers are quite costly to run too which is a big problem.

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Federated protocols are not centralized in principle. It might not scale to one user-one server (which probably even Lemmy can't handle) but if you're signing up for a central server, you're doing it wrong(tm). Don't do that. The nice thing about Matrix client is that it allows end to end encryption, including groups. So that greatly limits what Mallory can do in principle. As to servers being costly to run, given what documented Synapse requirements are, you're looking at less than 5 EUR/month for a single server. Which can be shared among several users, obviously. This is in the same range as costs for a monthly VPN.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Synapse boasts about 50,000 concurrent users on a node. Ejabberd has been tuned to 2,000,000 concurrent users which shows how efficient & scalable the setup can be. €5/mo is a lot for many folks.

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[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is why Matrix is infinitely better than Signal. This and not having been funded by the CIA through Radio Free Asia. Even with weaker architecture

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Self-hosted XMPP using OMEMO included? OMEMO are based on Signal, hence my question.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

First I'd ever heard of OMEMO, thanks dude

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The americans seem to have figured out how to get change in relation to health insurance. Perhaps people might consider taking a page from the french history books to get some change on this issue.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The same French of whom more than a third want an authoritarian strongman in power? Personally I would prefer to copy the handful of boring countries where people actually trust their leaders and so don't feel they need to resort to bloody revolution at the drop of a hat.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Alright I want all farmers on a 30km range to join our next "peaceful" protest

[–] Manzas@lemdro.id 20 points 7 months ago

Why are they still thinking they can justify this? People which do illegal stuff are just going to use old apps self-host or bypass it with another way.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

However they want to do it, it will undermine a key principle of democracy and a human right: the right to privacy and private communication.

[–] Dalaryous@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Those damn Chinese and their censorship... oh wait

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Just watched a video of Low level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRATnT577Aw

Although this is about the US this is EXACTLY the shit that will happen to this whole chat scanning BS

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Some suggestions: Scan, Privacy, Control

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