Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by Arathorn on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:54PM (#29006117)

sneak’s pet issue is https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/11655: that element web assumes that you want to log into the matrix.org homeserver by default unless you change its config to default to a different one.

The libremonde research is over 2 years old now, and the valid bits of it were addressed at the time (https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s...)

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by sneak on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:03PM (#29007496)

I've user accounts on 3 different servers, run by 3 different groups.

Every single one of them has a configuration, despite a selfhosted instance, that phones home to centralized servers run by your for-profit company.

I'm not sure if this systemic problem is in your config files, your documentation, your defaults, your js client, or what. It's a failing of some part (or multiple parts) of the process.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by tentacleuno on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:55AM (#29011998)

> element web assumes that you want to log into the matrix.org homeserver

Ahh. Seems like an easier problem to fix then. Doesn't Element Android remove that assumption and let you choose?

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