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  • “Unencrypted chatrooms can be modified by an admin”. No shit? And you’re sure that hasn’t happened on Telegram? Or IRC? Or any other unencrypted messenger?

    For the past few months, the Matrix community has been largely inactive (despite having over 5,000 members),

    Where is he getting these stats from?

    In an encrypted room even with fully verified members, a compromised or hostile home server can still take over the room by impersonating an admin. That admin (or even a newly minted user) can then send events or listen on the conversations.

    How? They don’t have the keys to do so, do they? I can’t imagine that the private, unencrypted keys are stored on the server. That would be nuts.

    It’s shitty that he had such a bad experience, but again, any unencrypted messenger will be susceptible to account takeover by an admin. Signal has groups. Whether their moderating tools are good or not, I can’t tell as I’m not an admin of such a group, but moving back to Telegram is no better than going to Discord.

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  • But I do wish Linux could find a way to deliver a product that feels as refined as a MacBook. I would be willing to donate to an effort to do so.

    There are quite a few efforts to make linux a default and provide a good UX. One way to support them is buying stuff with linux pre-loaded. Then it’s using stuff like KDE, Gnome, other desktop enviroments and donating to them. I exclusively buy from linux hardware vendors (as in desktops and laptops) and have been donating non-stop to a few opensource projects for about 5 years now (maybe even longer).

    The Linux Foundation though… I think only an external force could convince them to spend more than 2% of their budget on linux itself…

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