I was sold on Matrix as a viable alternative to Discord but recently read this article which made it look not so good.

  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
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    1 year ago

    "5 years after the creation of Matrix, and after 5 years of centrally receiving such a scandalous amount of users private data from their «decentralized» software, it was only after the mentioned report was published when the Matrix developers published some «privacy improvements» [13] addressing some of the revealed problems.

    We have not read it."

    This seems lazy to me. I haven’t read the report but i’m also not the one writing an article bashing matrix. If i was I’d want to know whether my concerns are still valid, and as a reader i want to know whether the concerns they brought up still apply without having to read a whole other report

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      1 year ago

      yeah it seems like they started writing this article by forming an opinion then cherry picking, not looking at the data and then forming an opinion around it

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      The rest of the article reads the same. They even said what they were repeating is probably FUD and made zero effort to investigate.