• Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml
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        11 days ago

        Could you explain/elaborate to a know-nothing (me) on the following from your link?:

        Caveats of federation: Metadata leaking

        When using federation, Matrix’s room states (containing a lot of Metadata) get replicated and stored indefinitely on every homeserver any user connects with or connects to. While this is a feature for enabling distributed chat rooms, it comes at a serious privacy cost.

        To avoid this, you can either disable federation, or make sure that your users signed up with no linkable identifiers other than their user names.

        • davel@lemmy.mlOP
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          11 days ago

          I’ve never looked into how Matrix works at all, so I can’t really speak to that.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        That could work, it looks like it was a lot of features like reacts and video calls. How easy it is to setup and ‘plug-and-play’ will determine whether I’ll be able to convince people to use it

    • Yesbutnotreally@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      It’s like a politician, “Look how bad the others are” and then not proposing anything better (because at this moment, there isn’t).