I hosted a matrix server and explored Riot. You can tell they’ve invested a lot into the UI. There’s some ‘dark pattern design’ going on too, like their “data collection dialog.” They want you to consent. Encryption isn’t on by default, and when you do turn it on the program prompts you to ‘backup’ your keys where “we’ll store an encrypted copy of your keys on our server.” There is so much push to harvet data from you in some way or another. For an apparently “open source,” “private,” and “federated” program there seems to be an insidious push to be the polar opposite. The project wants to eventually move away from matrix usernames to phone numbers or e-mail addresses to identify users.
— lainon
Hey that’s first problem! nobody knows how to find your service!
Go to your search engine and look up the following:
See? no related results of what we’re talking about..
What the hell? Why do a completly separate server use HTTP?
I mean, XMPP uses HTTP only for file upload and that’s it (Also, the HTTP upload file server is started by the XMPP server, not like matrix, which depends on, let’s say, nginx)
Yeah, Matrix is a decentralized protocol in theory, but in practice, this is different:
What else do I have to say?
This means that Cloudflare has all the request you’ve made to matrix.org
Also remember that main Matrix server is matrix.org (remember that decentralisation is a meme in matrix, everyone uses matrix.org), and matrix is a HTTP based protocol, so everything you do in matrix, is sniffed by cloudflare.
blank | XMPP | Matrix |
---|---|---|
Open protocol? | Yes | Yes but no |
Commercial project? | No | New Vector develops Element |
Encryption | OMEME, OTR, PGP | OLM |
Monopoly Network? | Many servers and clients | Most users use Element+Matrix.org |
You literally can’t i was trying to setup a Matrix server but i fucking literally couldn’t, why do I have to setup nginx? I mean, yes, XMPP does also depend on Nginx but is highly optional. (just for HTTP file upload and nothing else) but Matrix FULLY depends in HTTP apparently.