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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why does this community, which is privacy oriented, use Discord rather than Matrix? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by Kalcifer@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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On the side bar it lists the following:

[Matrix/Element]Dead

Discord

"Discord" is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as "Dead", as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's encrypted between you and discord. So somebody on your Wi-Fi can't see what you're typing. But it's not encrypted end to end. Discord can see everything that people talk about. And that's the problem

[–] Liforra@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's just ssl tho

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Secure socket layer is a type of encryption. So discord can correctly claim it is encrypted. And the commenter above can get confused by that. Confusing user to server encryption and end-to-end encryption where the messages are encrypted between users is important distinction.

[–] Liforra@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah ur right, it is encryption, barely, but it is "military grade encryption"

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