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Is using an Matrix account from matrix.org private and secure enough to talk with my family members and people in general? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So, I was told to not use Signal, so all that is left is Matrix. And I am not techy enough to have my own server and neither are my relatives, so Matrix.org is the only option

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Basically Matrix is to Xmpp, what Bluesky is to ActivityPub. Which all the various issues both technically and related to VC and crypto-currency funding.

In addition Matrix uses a federation model that is extremely inefficient, making it hard to run your own server once you have a few users that join larger rooms. And as a side effect of this inefficient federation model that replicates the database onto all participating servers, it tends to centralize all the metadata on the servers (run on AWS under UK jurisdiction) hosted by the for-profit company that is behind Matrix.

And last but not least they rugpulled everyone very recently and made the only fully functional server implementation open-core to upsell larger servers to their proprietary hosted offering.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

You’re always here to talk to sense into the folks :)

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting, and I didn't know matrix itself into that much short (though they always had a lifeless corpo feeling..)

I've always wanted to create an account but never was able to figure out how (for my chosen servers at least) but know i want to try again. thanks for the info :)