@amatecha@merveilles.town @matrix @liaizon@wake.st https://element.io/blog/the-online-safety-bill-an-attack-on-encryption gives an idea of our position. And no, there are no backdoors. Yes, we fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments, which includes police: if you don’t like that then please feel free to use a different app.
Agreed. While Matrix may not be part of the so called “fediverse” like lemmy, people should never forget that Matrix is also a federated protocol with hundreds if not thousands of public homeservers.
As long as the Element App isn’t doing something sus, like storing unencrypted user messages locally or phone messages home to element.io despite being on a completely unrelated homeserver I don’t think there should be much concern. And even if any of these are the case it shouldn’t be hard to fork the thing and patch that stuff out. Or just use a more trustworthy client.
Agreed. While Matrix may not be part of the so called “fediverse” like lemmy, people should never forget that Matrix is also a federated protocol with hundreds if not thousands of public homeservers.
As long as the Element App isn’t doing something sus, like storing unencrypted user messages locally or phone messages home to element.io despite being on a completely unrelated homeserver I don’t think there should be much concern. And even if any of these are the case it shouldn’t be hard to fork the thing and patch that stuff out. Or just use a more trustworthy client.