'Matrix' Network Hits 60 Million Users, Improving the Demand for Decentralized Communication
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Matrix is an open-source standard for decentralized communication. It is constantly evolving to the requirements of modern solutions keeping in mind the privacy of users. You will find Matrix clients as a replacement for Slack, Microsoft Teams, and several other popular communication platforms. And, to re-affirm the adoption of decentralized

Not sure why Signal gets all the attention when Matrix is much more successful at spreading open source messaging and is also decentralized.

  • thervingi@lemmy.mlOP
    2·
    2 years ago

    Facebook says WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, but give me one reason to believe anything Facebook says. Unless you show me code, I can assume it’s not.

      • thervingi@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        2 years ago

        I seriously don’t understand this. You prefer Facebook’s closed source app over something open source? It’s Facebook!

          • thervingi@lemmy.mlOP
            1·
            2 years ago

            The client is open source, you can look at exactly what it does on your device.

            The point is that Facebook’s claim for EE2E doesn’t mean a thing as long as the client is closed source. I can claim anything as long as I don’t have to actually prove it.

            The fact that Facebook refuses to open source WhatsApp client doesn’t lend credibility to their claim for E2EE.

            • sexy_peach@feddit.de
              31·
              2 years ago

              The client is open source, you can look at exactly what it does on your device.

              That doesn’t answer my question though. I asked about their servers, not your client.

              • thervingi@lemmy.mlOP
                12·
                2 years ago

                We don’t know since we don’t have access to their servers.

                I’m not saying Telegram is the best chat service. I prefer Matrix over Telegram. But Telegram is objectively better than WhatsApp and is doing a good job of getting people off Facebook (around 700 million users last I checked).