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?
The irony of this is that instead of dealing with a sketchy privacy policy(/ies) with Matrix versus a terrible privacy policy with Discord, bridging gives you the worst of both worlds, and all user data is open wide to total violation by the worst of both policies combined.
Ehh not really; at least if you care about your own anonymity. Sure the communication is as private as the weakest link (or less because now you have to trust the bot relaying it, too), but nobody from Discord would be able to easily look up your identity.
I guess it depends what you mean by your identity. I would totally buy the idea that Discord identifies you in some nearly personal capacity, because they seem to either want your IP address or a phone number to verify you as an individual. But I would say that having all your messages up on their servers is approximately just as bad. And obviously, Matrix bridges can’t encrypt your messages so they’re sitting on at least one Matrix server with similar access to your identity…
Oh shit. I did not realize that.