RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)

Weird how they are good at digging up the past relationship between the matrix team prior donators with the mosad. but failed to mention not even once that matrix’s biggest advantage is its federated nature.

So imagine you have a selfhosted matrix server and you want to invite a friend over for a chat but this friend already has an account at his other friend’s server. in Matrix he doesn’t have to make an account on every server their interlocutor is in, he just sends his messages, like its done over email, or here on lemmy (fediverse). this is an advantage other software like fluxer of stoat don’t have. and I doubt they will able to add it anytime soon, as the work needed is probably huge and would need years of work to make a proper secure e2e federate messaging solution.

Uh what the fuck how about any connection to mossad should be a death sentence for a software project

I understand the concern, and I find it fishy that the matrix team didn’t try and address that (maybe they did but I just didn’t come across that)

but on the other hand many governments and ministries like the French MOD have deployed matrix locally for their private usage. not sure they want to use a software that the mossad can directly tap into

French MOD have deployed matrix locally for their private usage. not sure they want to use a software that the mossad can directly tap into

I wouldn’t put any stock into that as a metric of if it’s safe or not, since Spain and Germany were happy to [buy a contract for Pegasus, another Israeli surveillance software adopted widely by EU governments. The Netherlands is another suspected user.

EU governments were also happy to adopt Microsoft products despite the security implications, and even way back in the 80’s used Promis, which had a known US/Israeli backdoor in it (there’s a really great documentary about Promis on netflix, surprisingly, though I’d recommend sailing to watch it, yarr).

Pegasus (spyware) - Wikipedia