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About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.

Matrix Manifesto We believe:

People should have full control over their own communication. People should not be locked into centralised communication silos, but instead be free to pick who they choose to host their communication without limiting who they can reach. The ability to converse securely and privately is a basic human right. Communication should be available to everyone as a free and open, unencumbered, standard and global network.

    • Chickerino@feddit.nlEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      And, I guess, in general I am increasingly worried about people with bad opsec. A lot of the “fediverse” discussions are reminding me of the crypto crowd thinking it provides a high degree of security and anonymity because a corporation is not involved. And they really don’t realize just how much power and access instance owners/admins have.

      people should always think that everything they post on the internet can be searchable and viewable by anyone, it is public information

      • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Exactly. Drives me a little crazy seeing all these posts and comments about how the Fediverse has poor privacy. It’s a public forum people, you should be considering everything you say here to be freely accessible information. At no point did anyone promise that your posts and comments would not be available to someone outside the service.

    • iZRBQEcWVXNdnPtTV@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Never say anything over chat/IM that a company knowing would hurt

      I used to work at Discord and I can tell you that this is, painfully, not the norm.

    • sol@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      the orgs that prioritized it were shady as hell

      You literally have no idea who’s behind Discord.

    • Trapping5341@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And I still wish there were an “open protocol” so that I could use the steam overlay to chat with a buddy playing elden ring on her xbox while I play trepang2 on my PC.

      I’m 99.99% sure that discord released an xbox app so you can chat on discord cross platform now. Haven’t used an xbox in ages though.

      Quick google

    • ninchuka@lemmy.oneEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      what do you mean with “all of the orgs that prioritized it were shady as hell”?

    • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      And I still wish there were an “open protocol” so that I could use the steam overlay to chat with a buddy playing elden ring on her xbox while I play trepang2 on my PC.

      There are open chat protocols, like XMPP. The issue is corporations either don’t use them, or use them to enshittificate (that’s what happened to XMPP, even. As for open GUI protocols, which is needed for the second part of your message, same issue: there’s open protocols and open toolkits all over the place, but the corps that produce consoles and games won’t use them (or, when they do, they’ll still lock them behind an “ecosystem”).

      tl;dr: choose better (more open) games, and you can have p much all the chat you want.