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?

  • anytimesoon@piefed.social
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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.

      • Tad Lispy@europe.pubOP
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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.