On the side bar it lists the following:
- [Matrix/Element]Dead
- Discord
“Discord” is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as “Dead”, as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?
When I say encrypted, I mean it as shorthand for “end to end encrypted” aka visible only to the participants in a conversation and not the server itself.
On Discord, the website owners can search through all their “servers” with the ease at which you search through different rooms within a single Discord server. On Matrix, rooms allow you to encrypt the data so that only you and the other participants can see the contents of it. (At that point, search also breaks down at a fundamental level for you, but that’s out of the scope of this comment…)