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Matrix isn't secure depending on how you use it. It also doesn't protect individual identities terribly well.
Simplex Chat would be the better option however the main Simplex Chat server and matrix server could end up blocked as well.
Matrix is entirely self-hostable, and you can turn off both federation, and the requirements for any linkable identifiers.
Signal by contrast requires your phone number, isn't self-hostable, and is based in a five-eyes country.
Matrix doesn't protect metadata, which is arguably just as (if not more) important than message data. Signal by contrast does protect metadata and proper implements Perfect Forward Secrecy for all chats. I do think Signal's centralized design and phone number requirements problematic, but Signal still has many merits. Such as its massive user base for a AGPL-only project.
Citation needed. It is undisputed that the software that runs on their servers is not identical to the code they release; if they release at all because sometimes they just stop for a year, until people complain 🫠
This is false. You still need a phone number to sign up and it is used as an internal identifier.
All they did is to optionally allow you to hide your phone number from other users.
plenty of servers for both though
Couldn't they block them too? Monitor the domains people connect to, check if it's a Matrix server and block it if it is.
What would a blockchain provide here?
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The overwhelming majority of users are on the main servers. It also impacts self hosted Matrix servers that use the matrox.org identity server.
Probably mostly because almost nobody uses it.
Couple million is absolutely nobody /s
Almost is absolutely \s