Soatok DreamseekerFeb 20

I've had a few people ask why I didn't post the full Matrix email on my Fedi thread. There are two reasons:

  • It wouldn't fit in 1k characters.
  • Listen carefully:

    • Y'know how "just getting caught cheating on your monogamous partner" isn't the right time to discuss exploring ethical nonmonogamy?

    In a similar vein, asking for information while dismissing a report as "no practical security impact" is still dismissing the goddamn report.

    I excerpted the part of their email where they dismissed my report. That was the part that initiated the immediate disclosure. The inciting turn of phrase.

    It doesn't matter how much you piss on my leg, I'm not going to believe it's raining.

    Show threadSoatok DreamseekerFeb 20

    Matrix has many incentives to lie or mislead. Their leadership includes the CEO of a company whose product is a Matrix client. There's active political talks about the EU investing heavily in Matrix. He's got a vested interest in looking good, even at the expense of doing or even being good.

    On the other hand, I have nothing to gain. If everyone switches to Matrix tomorrow, nothing in my life changes. If Matrix self-implodes and everyone goes back to XMPP tomorrow, nothing in my lfie changes.

    The only things I want are:

  • End-to-end encryption to be better.
  • End-to-end encryption to become ubiquitous for communication protocols and apps.
  • The large tech companies whose business models involve privacy violations and stealing from artists and other creative workers to burn down so gloriously that society forgets the word "billionaire" in twenty years.
    • Show threadSTPFeb 20
    @soatok I have slight worries around "eurostack" type initiatives, in that while open source tech displacing US surveillance capitalism is great it could easily produce bad incentives - projects (and devs salaries) becoming dependent on money from political bodies constantly flirting with bans or backdoor mandates on e2ee. Both at European and national levels, there seems to be an endless cycle of technologically ignorant nonsense and "nothing to hide" fallacy.
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    @SciPolTech @soatok also, it's not like the schwarz group (lidl etc), who are ramping up to offering their infrastructure in a move similar to amazon, are good or trustworthy in any shape or form 😒
    Feb 22 at 2:18amWeb