• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Decentralization actually can be really powerful to give you a backup even if you prefer Signal; Signal’s servers very infrequently go down, but when they do, you entirely lose that channel for an unpredictable amount of time.

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      2 months ago

      You can’t know with certainty on Signal that the client and the server are actually keeping your messages encrypted at rest, you have to trust them.

      With Matrix, if you self host, you are the one in control.

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        2 months ago

        You can’t know with certainty on Signal that the client and the server are actually keeping your messages encrypted at rest, you have to trust them.

        This is untrue. By design, messages are never decrypted on servers when end-to-end encryption is in use. They would have to break the encryption first, because they don’t have the keys.