• DessalinesA
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    5 years ago

    It’d definitely be a good thing if they added this, but they’re kinda late to have this as an afterthought. Matrix / riot being federated, self hostable, and e2ee capable, is pretty much the future of comms.

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      5 years ago

      The metadata that needs to be shared on decentralised services is a lot and Riot/Matrix shares a lot of it. If you seek for anonimity and privacy this is not the best, you will always have to trust your instance admin. I too think that Riot/Matrix is the future but not for Anonimity. Only IM who has achieved not sharing metadata being decentralised is Session with the onion routing used when messaging.

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      5 years ago

      Matrix / riot being federated, self hostable, and e2ee capable, is pretty much the future of comms.

      I think that’s overly hopeful. Webrtc dependent sollutions can’t be reliably used over TOR and most major VPNs. Being self hostable is definitely a plus, but from the perspective of the communication protocols themselves Matrix is outclassed in both usability and call/message security.