Just be mindful decentralization doesn't inherently mean there is privacy.
Seems like a step up from "Covenant Eyes" with weirdo politicians sharing their porn habits with their children.
At this point I have to wonder whether the "Signal is CIA funded" narrative is not just butthurt Russian trolls mad at the fact it's also used by spies and informants for secure communication.
It's probably also media's fault for this. They only publish when a bad person does a bad thing on the internet with it, not all the millions of users who don't do bad things. That would be boring.
Probably another point is that the encryption for Matrix/Element has undergone multiple audits, one in 2016 and another one of their newer rust library. Whereas telegram just has not. There was this also a not too long ago. MTProto is also used nowhere else, whereas a lot of encryption has been influenced by the Double Ratchet which is well understood.
The other thing worth noting is that Matrix is the foundation for other products which many governments use for secure communications.
Keep in mind LocalCDN will make your fingerprint more unique. HTTPS Everywhere is unmaintained and no longer needed.... and you certainly don't need Decentraleyes, thats a duplicate of LocalCDN and is also unmaintained.
VPNs are still worth it for that purpose, particularly torrenting.. Not sure who is saying this but they are wrong.
100% this, and it's why I still used old.reddit.com, because the new reddit site is just awful.
What I will say is there is less "noise" on our lemmy/discussion forums, and distinctly higher quality posts. This is something we'd like to encourage long term, particularly when people ask questions already answered quite clearly on our website.
It is, which is why I'm removing it. You can expect this from CNET, Techradar and bullshit outlets like that.
This is VPN marketing material mouth pieces 101.