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Ah so they are just capturing users currently and will have to make return on investment later? That’s a no from me.

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there's also session

unfortunately privacy and usability are inversely related. session is private. I loved it. but I had no one to chat with

I had no idea if any of my contacts were on session or not.

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Yeah it's a shame, though i'm going to wait before switching to it to see if it gets itself into any hot water.

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How is it different

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You are confusing privacy with anonymity. You aren't anonymous because your user is linked to a phone number, but your communications are private due to how their encryption works.

On the location attack: it is a matter of configuration and your location will be as ambiguous as thousands of miles.

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What VC money has Matrix taken? Genuinely curious

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some issues with many email providers

This turned out to be the deal-breaker for me. GMX kept locking me out of my account because of the DeltaChat messages. They're (of course) full of cyphertext and to email providers this must look a look like spam.

The open-to-abuse nature of email claims yet another victim.

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30 million dollars https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explodes/

You can argue that element is not matrix but you’re fooling yourself. Others even have to look at how element implements stuff instead of following the matrix spec

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They are open source and decentralized and indeed there are already a few forks.

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Yup that's why it seems great though i haven't heard of forks. I think i'll wait a little more till i switch to it, just to see if it gets itself in hot water. It's too early to tell

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If you use your email, it's anonymous but you have to use your email which is almost never anonymous and has your phone number. Also you have to "Create an app-specific password" that delta chat will use and gain full access to your email account, which is way worse than signal or any other application. That's a really stupid idea.

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Finessing the terms doesn't fix it.

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Good to know, thank you for the link

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Wasting other people's time.

If you want to use an LLM that's fine, but if you're cutting and pasting it into a discussion you should warn other people that it's not human generated.

And most of it isn't wrong, it's just a giant wall of text that's largely irrelevant to the conversation.

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PGP is a very curious choice. A quick Google search says a downside of this is that it does not provide "forward secrecy". From the Wikipedia page on forward secrecy, it prevents things like the following.

If an adversary can steal (or obtain through a court order) this static (long term) signing key, the adversary can masquerade as the server to the client and as the client to the server and implement a classic man-in-the-middle attack.

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If you struggle making more than one email address try starting somewhere basic.

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Precise language is important if you want to understand and communicate truth. It helps a lot to understand the difference between privacy and anonimity there is a scenario where a person doesn't care that an adversary knows their id, but does care about the content of their messages. In which case, differentiating tools that provide that particular service requires language to discuss it.

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Did anyone tell the WhatsApp users?

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He clearly does care about the phone number.

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