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Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

so the company can be bought

The company (Signal Messenger LLC) is fully owned by Signal Foundation, a 501©3 non profit organization.

Try to use federated services

I generally like this idea, and I also use federated services for things like social media, that’s why we’re having a discussion here on Lemmy. But it introduces some issues with private messaging, like lack of reliability, which sucks if you want to use Matrix as your primary messenger, as well as metadata leaks. Federation is not always the answer, and in my opinion definitely not when it comes private and secure messaging.

they are more robust against hostile take overs

Probably around 80-90% of Matrix users are on the matrix.org homeserver, so it’s absolutely not as decentralized and resilient as you think it is.

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