still hella confused as to why self-proclaimed privacy advocates—even teams like @privacyguides—are pushing @element so hard despite the data collection & sharing practices, the loosey-goosey metadata usage, and the fact that they host on AWS.

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    1 year ago

    sure, but if the messages are stored on servers you don’t fully trust or control?

    Encrypted messages.
    Also, you can limit which servers can participate in your room’s federation (in simple terms: which one has access to room data). There’s an option on the Element UI to disallow federating the room, and I think it’s also possible to have fine grained control over it (with so called server ACLs)

    data collection & sharing practices

    Isn’t it opt-in on all the released Element clients?