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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Folks, this should inspire you to start self-hosting a federated, decentralized chat server with freely available source code by yourself or with a small community. Governments can coerce these big, usually-corpo centralized servers to give up data but good luck if there are hundreds of thousands (of millions?) of small servers with 1–10 users on it & clients not controlled by a single entity for distribution (easier now that y’all coerced Mommy Apple to let you sideload applications & use alternative package managers).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you don't trust matrix.org, then you can self host the server yourself. Plus, the article you included is outdated.

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