"Matrix" (a government connected federated messaging protocol, similar to discord in many ways)... is grappling with an overwhelming problem, where a substan...
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Nothing wrong with the matrix spec. I’ve ran a matrix homeserver for several years now and have never had issues with illegal material. It’s free, open source, and self-hostable. If you have an issue with matrix.org that’s a different issue. Don’t use matrix.org servers. In fact, they have made it a point in their literature that they want you to use your own servers, they preach against centralization, and point out that matrix.org is an entryway to get you started, not an endpoint.

Did you even watch the video??

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Yes I watched your video. So many wrong comments from ignorance. And blaming a protocol for the behavior of people? Another commenter here pointed out how Tor could be blamed in the same way. Why not just do away with the internet then? Ridiculous.

Guys TCP is evil because people reach pirating websites using it!! 😣

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have never had issues

Sample size of 1 doesn’t really mean anything, sorry.

I’ve never been in a car crash, I guess that means it’s not a pervasive issue.

See the problem with this logic?

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Feel free to link us to these abusive communities then since you are making a singular claim yourself.

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Absolutely not. I left those communities because of what was in them, I will not be seeking them out on purpose just to show a bunch of CSAM to people and probably incriminate myself.

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