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[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's a downside in my opinion, considering the police in most countries assist in maintaining the control of corporations and authoritarian governments. To offer services to them knowing this is a negative ethical marker for a company.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does it matter? The US government recommends Signal for government and service members.

As long as a project is open source (i.e. publicly auditable) and the maintainers aren't using the project as a platform for spreading things like fascism or white replacement theory it's not a big problem

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Personally I think it matters in this case due to the odd way that Matrix is designed to share metadata with all federated servers, which means the one run by Matrix/Element basically has access virtually all metadata on the network, which considering their background, is concerning for me. I wrote more about that aspect here: https://lemmy.cafe/post/31672929/15961430