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.
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That wouldn’t apply to conversations you have within a group that hosts their own server, would it? Like within a family or a club.
If anyone in your group has an account is hosted on Matrix.org, yes. If no one is, no.
But that puts a huge limitation on the platform so, why bother?
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
No, not all platforms store metadata, much less absolutely all of it unencrypted. Further, other platforms are less centralized.
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.