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.

  • anytimesoon@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    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

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

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

      • Tad Lispy@europe.pubOP
        4·
        3 days 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.