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Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It's a downside in my opinion, considering the police in most countries assist in maintaining the control of corporations and authoritarian governments. To offer services to them knowing this is a negative ethical marker for a company.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Does it matter? The US government recommends Signal for government and service members.

    As long as a project is open source (i.e. publicly auditable) and the maintainers aren't using the project as a platform for spreading things like fascism or white replacement theory it's not a big problem

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Personally I think it matters in this case due to the odd way that Matrix is designed to share metadata with all federated servers, which means the one run by Matrix/Element basically has access virtually all metadata on the network, which considering their background, is concerning for me. I wrote more about that aspect here: https://lemmy.cafe/post/31672929/15961430

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