still hella confused as to why self-proclaimed privacy advocates—even teams like @privacyguides—are pushing @element so hard despite the data collection & sharing practices, the loosey-goosey metadata usage, and the fact that they host on AWS.
still hella confused as to why self-proclaimed privacy advocates—even teams like @privacyguides—are pushing @element so hard despite the data collection & sharing practices, the loosey-goosey metadata usage, and the fact that they host on AWS.
The only thing a regular person will do on element is lose their key and cry softly into a pillow.
And at that point it was just working like Signal does. Right?
New users should be told that they won’t have access to their old messages, just like with signal, unless they do a one-time additional setup.
This really should be exclaimed at the beginning on every chat history in every major client, because it is not obvious, and as you said users only realize when the damage was already done, or not even then.