PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.

The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.

@element https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

#discord #matrix #element #police #fascism #FOSS

[fuckfetish@fuckaas.space]

@aral @element ew, what the fuck? thank you for sharing. do you have any good ideas for alternatives?

[prolrage@todon.nl]

@aral and even worse. https://todon.nl/@prolrage/113673379589154244

[introvertcatto@lgbtqia.space]

@fuckfetish @aral @element

I'll also try to help, I know about xmpp. https://xmpp.org/ and maybe IRC maybe someone nows more.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@fuckfetish @element There used to be Mattermost but I just took a look at their site and it looks like they’ve gone full “military fuck yeah”.

This is what happens when people believe the “we care about human rights blah blah” bullshit of open source enterprise software corporations. The hint’s in “enterprise software” – that’s that they’re about, nothing else.

[zzt@mas.to]

@aral @element “no, there are no backdoors” is rich coming from the protocol whose previous end-to-end encryption implementation was effectively a no-op and whose current implementation leaks almost every bit of message metadata and is notoriously unreliable on top of it

[element@mastodon.matrix.org]

@aral This is not the case. See https://element.io/en/legal/ethics for the public ethics policy of who we sell to.