"Matrix" (a government connected federated messaging protocol, similar to discord in many ways)... is grappling with an overwhelming problem, where a substan...
  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I mean i get that matrix is used by bad people, but that doesn’t mean that matrix is bad.

    Any decentralized platform will have this issue with csam, but that doesn’t make ot bad. Matrix is basically what TOR is to browsing the internet, people use TOR for CSAM but that doesn’t make tor bad.

    However he does raise up a big concern and thats that homeserver admins are unable to change what they are hosting which means that they are forced to host CSAM which is a really big issue

    Overall tho, matrix is still a good platform. There’s nothing wrong with government contracts, its all open source. TOR was developed by the us military but that doesn’t make it bad or even less effective

    • refalo@programming.devOP
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      5 months ago

      that doesn’t make it bad

      not inherently no. just like computers, the internet, gps, tor etc., all came from government/military funding

      the first digital computer was even created specifically to calculate how to kill people better in the war.