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Remember kids, if someone makes a centralized app or messaging claiming to be a savior of privacy and security, you should be skeptical of them and their integrity. Really you should be skeptical of anyone making grand promises of privacy and security, especially boastful ones. Though decentralized services are less risky than centralized ones, and that's why I recommend people use Matrix instead of Signal.
Matrix still has problems but it being decentralized eliminates many of the corruption issues by simply using a server not affiliated with the creators.
Matrix shares metadata in plaintext with every participating server: who talks to who, when and how often.
yeah, no shit, it's decentralized.
If you don't want that metadata visible then host your own server and require your organization to use only that server, there are settings specifically to enforce this use-case.
the french government uses matrix for communications, it's fine.