'Matrix' Network Hits 60 Million Users, Improving the Demand for Decentralized Communication - It's FOSS News
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Matrix is looking strong against the fight with Big Tech companies for a secure, open, and privacy-friendly communication platform.

Not sure why Signal gets all the attention when Matrix is much more successful at spreading open source messaging and is also decentralized.

    • thervingiOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Facebook says WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, but give me one reason to believe anything Facebook says. Unless you show me code, I can assume it’s not.

        • thervingiOP
          1·
          2 years ago

          I seriously don’t understand this. You prefer Facebook’s closed source app over something open source? It’s Facebook!

            • thervingiOP
              1·
              2 years ago

              The client is open source, you can look at exactly what it does on your device.

              The point is that Facebook’s claim for EE2E doesn’t mean a thing as long as the client is closed source. I can claim anything as long as I don’t have to actually prove it.

              The fact that Facebook refuses to open source WhatsApp client doesn’t lend credibility to their claim for E2EE.

              • sexy_peach@feddit.de
                31·
                2 years ago

                The client is open source, you can look at exactly what it does on your device.

                That doesn’t answer my question though. I asked about their servers, not your client.

                • thervingiOP
                  12·
                  2 years ago

                  We don’t know since we don’t have access to their servers.

                  I’m not saying Telegram is the best chat service. I prefer Matrix over Telegram. But Telegram is objectively better than WhatsApp and is doing a good job of getting people off Facebook (around 700 million users last I checked).