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Re:Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home by mariusor on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:00AM (#26313633)
WhatsApp was selling you access to your account. Element is selling you access to an instance which you can share with as many users as you want.
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Re:Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home by ucha on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:04AM (#26313660)
The pricing page says you can only share it with 5 users for the $10/month package. Am I missing something?
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Re:Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home by mariusor on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:29AM (#26315060)
You are right, apologies. :) x24 more than WhatsApp for the benefit of being sure your data doesn't fall into third party hands, that's for you to decide if it's enough.
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Re:Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home by dtx1 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:24PM (#26319285)
"your data" falls into at least elements and aws hands with this. Yeah the content is encrypted but there's lots of metadata to grab by malicous actors. The reality is 10$ for 25 Users would have been more reasonable. Enough to setup a server for your family and close friends.
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