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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by anonymousnotme on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:26PM (#29050003)
Aren't both XMPP and matrix networks decentralized? XMPP has been around since 1999 according to wikipedia. It is my understanding that providers could keep metadata/logs about accounts involved.
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by olah_1 on Saturday October 30, 2021 @09:49PM (#29053808)
They are both metadata sponges, but Matrix is on a whole different level of bad because it gossips that metadata to every server it connects with.

Not to mention that you don’t actually own your accounts unless you run the server yourself.

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