Signal is easier to use, more private, and faster.

Unfortunately, it’s also effectively tied to Google services, and (as a centralised service) vulnerable to shutdown or network-level metadata monitoring by anyone with sufficient access, like a government who doesn’t like encrypted messaging.

Matrix is good for private general messaging. The fact that it’s decentralised means it can also withstand things like government-ordered shutdowns or back doors, since there is no central point that controls the whole network.

Two things to be aware of:

• Some non-message bits (e.g. room topic text and membership) have not yet been moved to the encrypted channel, so those could be read by the administrator of a homeserver that participates in your chat room. Since most people care primarily about keeping the message content private, this is an acceptable trade-off to get all the things that Matrix offers.
• The upcoming Matrix 2.0 features and design choices simplify the UI and fix some occasional errors. It might be worth waiting until this stuff officially lands in the client apps before bringing your contacts to Matrix, for a better experience all around.

Facebook: I’ll just torrent what I need burden your underfunded project and volunteers with over 81 TB of bandwidth costs without contributing anything in return, see yaa

FTFY

I suspect the vast majority of people turning to social media as a pressure release valve feel disempowered, and don’t know what more they can reasonably do. When voting is no longer enough, and you have little time or money to spare, what’s next? How can a fly meaningfully change the path of a rhino stampede?

This article is insightful, but practically useless. I think it would be better if it also presented specific actions and achievable goals that would lead to shutting down the encroaching fascism.

That doesn’t really answer my question.

I’m curious about what significant changes in behavior we might see as a result of the upgrade. Are there improvements you were looking forward to? Is anything worse? Has our recurring federation problem been solved?

So far, I’ve noticed that my front page now appears with blank placeholders where the posts should be, and it takes several seconds for them to resolve into something readable. Seems like a step backward to me.

What changed since the version we had? The UI changelog doesn’t seem to be consistently maintained.

Are there any real-world examples where encryption backdoors have been successfully used without compromising cybersecurity?

No. That concept is an oxymoron.

Debian user here, happy to be running such a low-maintenance OS. Thanks for making me laugh out loud.

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The Reddit that was once an unmatched source of useful information has been dead for some time. Any good that might still be created there is now drowned in a flood of bots, spam, astroturfing, advertising, manipulation, and ignorance with enormous ego.

IMHO, routing that sewage into our communities here would be a mistake.

As I recall, Delta Chat is a front end for opportunistic PGP over email, so I guess this must be a spec for sharing web apps over that channel. Yes?

How does it compare to Matrix widgets?

In English, to dump is (usually) to unload or discard, so its use here is a bit strange. I thought I understood what was meant anyway, but I wasn’t sure.

“Dump”? Is that a literal translation of the Danish word for failure?

I think my question was clear enough. The comment didn’t mention banks, I’ve never had a bank that did that, and we generally don’t try to hide our identities from our banks anyway. My best guess was that they misunderstood how public/private keys work, but since that was only a guess, I asked.

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I don’t see a claim of it being more private than a username. Perhaps the person you’re arguing with views them as equally private, or is thinking of services that require some form of contact info. I can’t speak for them.

LOL what? No they’re not. How does an email protect your privacy over just a username?

They said per-account email addresses, presumably meaning that when giving out an email address, you would use a different one for each service. That way, they couldn’t be used to link you across services, and you could easily delete one (and know who to blame) if it was abused.