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Matrix? No, thanks. — Hackea documentació (hackea.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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The article alleges that Matrix:

  • has links to Israeli intelligence.
  • sends a lot of sensitive data to matrix.org servers, even when Synapse is self-hosted.

Is this information accurate?

To be clear, I'm not saying Matrix is bad. I'm still using it. I just want to know more about it and who's running the show, and hear other people's opinions and arguments. Thanks for all the insightful comments.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If anyone in your group has an account is hosted on Matrix.org, yes. If no one is, no.

But that puts a huge limitation on the platform so, why bother?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't this the same limitation of any federated platform? If you communicate with someone from a different instance your data will be replicated on their instance

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, not all platforms store metadata, much less absolutely all of it unencrypted. Further, other platforms are less centralized.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    What's a better alternative? Which other platforms are you referring to? How do they compare in terms of features and adoption? From all the decentralised, e2e encrypted platforms I tried, matrix is the only one more or less accessible for normies.

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