Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
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Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.

I’m thinking of moving away from US-based messengers.

Signal, telegram etc have the same problematic architectures. Of those kinds of solutions, I like Threema best, but nobody uses them (which is only a problem because of their architecture).

So I wanted to get a solution with a decentralized architecture, pretty much like the fediverse.

From what I can see, the fediverse activityPub with MLS layer project (to enable fediverse end-to-end encrypted messaging) is still in the functional documentation stage.

So, what do you think of Element as a messenger (which uses matrix protocol)?

  • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I was just pointing out that it wouldn’t be easily provable that you were in possession of such content.

    Yeah, but I’d rather not have anything illegal than just making it less obvious. I’d rather stick to the rules.

    unless you are saying that all forms of messages, including media like images and videos, are encrypted in e2ee rooms, in which case that is information I did not have.

    Yes, media would be encrypted as well. Metadata is not, though. Matrix leads to quite a lot of that, unfortunately, due to the way it works.

    There are usually many servers that know name and members of a chat, even though the contents are encrypted.

    EDIT: I’ve been deep into hosting Matrix and XMPP for a long time, I sometimes forget which things aren’t obvious from a user’s point of view.