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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's a Google hosted service, which is arguably worse because they may as well be a nation-state unto themselves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't Amazon involved here as well? It is another "nation-state".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do not think so, no. However, Amazon is certainly big enough to be un-humorously compared to nation-states as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I remembered it as being AWS. Checked their blog, and the article about their spending mentions renting space in AWS and Azure too, indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And the largest homeserver, matrix.org, is MITM'd by Crimeflare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fuck matrix.org, just selfhost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Doable, but a huge pain in the ass because of conflicts in the protocol. I spent about a year trying to suss them out and come up with a fix but never figured it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any homeserver that federates (even indirectly) with matrix.org will still have practically all the same data shared with it, just not your password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The password used to login to the homeserver