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Signal is open source but it’s hosted centrally. So you’re trusting their server.
Matrix is a protocol it’s not hosted anywhere. But the primary developer and host instance now called Element.
But it being created and initially bankrolled by an Israeli spyware company known for creating backdoors, and the lead devs still refusing to acknowledge that doesn’t inspire me much more confidence.
If you want privacy SimpleX seems like better option than Matrix.
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World News@lemmy.ml•NYT: Pattern of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians – soldiers, settlers, guards implicated
9·2 days agoOf course it’s an “opinion” piece again lmao.
Signal. Matrix was made by Israeli spyware company Amdocs and when an employee was asked about it after the split to a UK company they pretended like Amdocs wasn’t caught in multiple global spyware scandals already.
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World News@lemmy.ml•US bombs civilian infrastructure as it expands strikes against Iran
3·3 days agoThey’re probably in prison by now

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World News@lemmy.ml•US runs Venezuela finances six months after Maduro capture
5·3 days agoRubio wore the same jacket as Maduro shortly after kidnapping him because he thinks that’s funny
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World News@lemmy.ml•Political crisis and protests in Ukraine as Zelenskyy defends sacking defence minister
11·4 days agoA sure sign of when you’re winning the war
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World News@lemmy.ml•US runs Venezuela finances six months after Maduro capture
5·4 days agoI mean this sealed it there’s nothing but cope left https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sk18wos7me

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World News@lemmy.ml•US runs Venezuela finances six months after Maduro capture
2·4 days agoThey’ll say anything to cope for China and Russia letting the US overthrow every Communist government in South America without pushback.
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World News@lemmy.ml•China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment
0·17 days agoThat’s based. But didn’t Cuba basically rescind their Communist policies recently because of a lack of international support and the US sanctions having crippled the country



















For easy privacy the answer is Signal. If you want to put in effort then SimpleX or others seem better.
Matrix MIGHT be okay if you self host it, but I definitely wouldn’t trust the main Element hosted server. But the dev team sketches me out too hard so I’d just pick alternatives.