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Matrix Foundation and Element proudly declaring their association with NATO (lemmy.ml)
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I've been moving myself and my friends and even clients to Element, but I recently came across blogs about them helping onboard German, US armed forces, and NATO. This is shared with pride everywhere. And Element also goes so far as to say that they "choose who they work with" and not just everyone. And how they don't work with governments sanctioned by the US, EU, and UK or governments that might "cause large scale harm" or something to that effect. But NATO is a harmless puppy I guess.

I'm so conflicted right now. This is both a rant post and an ask for advice and suggestions.

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[–] absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there something you would recommend? I'm definitely not going back to WhatsApp. Signal works. But the centralization makes me feel iffy

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Session

[–] poo_22@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard of session, but someone needs to do a comparison between Session, Briar, SimpleX, Delta Chat, and any others as a matrix replacement. There's also retroshare. There's too much shit tbh

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You cannot say there are too many. They're fucking free. Do wantever you want but complaining about free software being free is about the most jackass thing I've ever heard about software.