Two years ago, I glanced at Matrix’s Olm library and immediately found several side-channel vulnerabilities. After dragging their feet for 90 days, they ended up not bothering to fix any of i…
If you know the alternatives suck, you can organize to make an alternative that doesn’t suck. Some of the existing ones might be a good starting point, but if you care more about usability than privacy or federation, it will inevitably become another Discord when the law man comes.
That said, the userbase of Discord is sufficiently large that some among you have the technical chops to replace it.
I have now, but I don’t see what “there are no good alternatives” does for the conversation when some of us are looking to get off Discord now.
It does a lot of good, actually.
If you know the alternatives suck, you can organize to make an alternative that doesn’t suck. Some of the existing ones might be a good starting point, but if you care more about usability than privacy or federation, it will inevitably become another Discord when the law man comes.
That said, the userbase of Discord is sufficiently large that some among you have the technical chops to replace it.