On the side bar it lists the following:
- [Matrix/Element]Dead
- Discord
“Discord” is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as “Dead”, as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?
Matrix has some gaping holes in privacy that are overshadowed only by the gaping holes in user experience.
But Discord… Discord privacy is far, far worse. While Matrix knows the who, when, where, and some of the what about every one of your conversations, at least it gives you the option to encrypt the contents within them.
I’m told discord is encrypted too, so could you be more specific?
Discord isn’t encrypted at all
It’s encrypted between you and discord. So somebody on your Wi-Fi can’t see what you’re typing. But it’s not encrypted end to end. Discord can see everything that people talk about. And that’s the problem
That’s just ssl tho
Secure socket layer is a type of encryption. So discord can correctly claim it is encrypted. And the commenter above can get confused by that. Confusing user to server encryption and end-to-end encryption where the messages are encrypted between users is important distinction.
Yeah ur right, it is encryption, barely, but it is “military grade encryption”
Ceaser cipher is a type of encrypton. That doesn’t make it safe. Nor is TLS with a terribly broken PKI.
Which is encryption
When I say encrypted, I mean it as shorthand for “end to end encrypted” aka visible only to the participants in a conversation and not the server itself.
On Discord, the website owners can search through all their “servers” with the ease at which you search through different rooms within a single Discord server. On Matrix, rooms allow you to encrypt the data so that only you and the other participants can see the contents of it. (At that point, search also breaks down at a fundamental level for you, but that’s out of the scope of this comment…)