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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Allow us to self host and federate. Take it to the fediverse and we'll fund the servers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is matrix as full featured as signal? I trust signal regarding encryption. Should/ can I trust Matrix the same way>?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, encryption is it's core concept. It's why it's actually so less user friendly in many aspects

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

signal used to just be an encryption layer over SMS. it was awesome, you just had to verify keys in a second channel when starting to message someone new.