I wouldn't be surprised to find out its true.
The problem is it shouldn't be a blight because its impossible to prevent bad actors from using an actually private and secure messaging app.
So the act of reporting on it is a smear because most don't understand or acknowledge the impossibility of preventing those bad actors.
Signal if you trust them to not leak your identifier and because its gotten the most mass adoption.
Simplex if you can convince your circle to use it because it has no identifiers and is user friendly.
You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.
Signal is still very good though.
I thought it was a hurdle, but I'm here.
I left the first time though because I couldn't decide, even though I knew of and believed in the benefits of decentralization.
Even now I sometimes think the instance I joined was a mistake and have anxiety about choosing a new one and also about moving to it.
Note this also builds oci compatible containers you can run with podman, kubernetes, etc.
It lets you develop on bare metal in an environment the same as the docker container and is reproducible rather than just repeatable.
This could be solved with a:
Can't make up your mind?
Click here to choose a random general topic instance. Don't worry, if you want to switch later you can.
Better performative than being able to ignore completely.
There is a paper out about reactivation after pasteurization sadly.
Harris was complicit in genocide.
Trump loudly talked about how he would make the genocide worse.
Why absolve Harris in an attempt to strengthen your argument?
Google play services betrays you.
Use https://grapheneos.org/ and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.
Threema bad:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/security-analysis-of-threema.html