The article alleges that Matrix:

  • has links to Israeli intelligence.
  • sends a lot of sensitive data to matrix.org servers, even when Synapse is self-hosted.

Is this information accurate?

  • Ulrich@feddit.org
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    If anyone in your group has an account is hosted on Matrix.org, yes. If no one is, no.

    But that puts a huge limitation on the platform so, why bother?

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      Isn’t this the same limitation of any federated platform? If you communicate with someone from a different instance your data will be replicated on their instance

      • Ulrich@feddit.org
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        No, not all platforms store metadata, much less absolutely all of it unencrypted. Further, other platforms are less centralized.

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          What’s a better alternative? Which other platforms are you referring to? How do they compare in terms of features and adoption? From all the decentralised, e2e encrypted platforms I tried, matrix is the only one more or less accessible for normies.