That’s probably a good start.
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This is surprising. Never expected in a million years for them to do this, but this is probably due to the controversy about Discord privacy policy, allowing them to listen to everything you say in a voice call.
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In my eyes, Discord was already a million times better than Matrix when it comes to communities, but now it’s even better, great.
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Discord still doesn’t encrypt messages, and own them.
It’s also closed source.
Matrix might be a worse experience, but it is clearly supperior in Privacy&Freedom.
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This is pretty funny. Suddenly they care about privacy? lol. Either way it’s not open source so it’s not verifiable. It may have some backdoor for “protecting the children”.
Presumably they are adding it so they can get rid of the burden that comes with being the anti-privacy spying tyrants they’ve been in the past, and by proxy, get rid of a tons of possible legal repercussions, and also so they can field off any fed requests for voice call data beyond some metadata.
At least, among the popular ones, it’s much better then any other social medias. Props to them.
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I suspect it’s so they can actually claim to not know about bad shit happening on their servers. It’s legally better for them IMO, and everyone benefits.
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Exactly
I hate to defend Discord of all companies, but they literally released a whitepaper, open sourced the crypto library their clients use with an MIT license, and got it audited too for good measure
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Good news for the masses, similar to Twitter having encrypted DMs. It’s one less thing for these bigcorpos to prey on their users with.
But non-news for privacy advocates in my opinion, as was the case with Twitter DMs. Regardless of why they implemented this, whether it was for legal deniability or for actually wanting to be less evil, I won’t care to use it or support it in any way. Complete non-news to me. I’m happy for the folks that use it, though.
I commend this, and would be interested in seeing how these libs stand up against others actually, but unless the client itself is open and reproducible, then it really doesn’t matter in the long run
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I’m sure there are individuals at Discord who want the increase protections for the user benefits. But corporations often act in the hive mind towards money and branding. There is 0% chance they did it for funs, it’s alway for moving their product forward.
The more we expect of these companies to have these protections, and the more we push legally, the more they will do them.