Oh boi 😅 After having used [Matrix] for a bit over a day or so now (after having some initial troubles with “Federating”) I have some really strong reservations on Matrix, Bridges and that whole ecosystem and it’s architecture 😂 I’m really not certain I can live with some of the “decisions”, “architectures” “culture” and over-engineering nature that is [Matrix] 🤔 #Matrix #Thoughts
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(#x6zqkha) @prologic@twtxt.net but if you used those external services directly without bridging, you’d still have to trust all those things, right? Take, say, FB Messenger. Whether I ‘bridge’ it to Matrix or use Messenger directly, I have to ‘trust’ Facebook (ha ha, as if! 😆) Same for Signal, WhatsApp, IRC, or anything else you bridge to.
That said, I don’t really use bridging much; for the services I tried it for it was too much hassle making the bridge work for it to be worthwhile.
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(#x6zqkha) @prologic@twtxt.net Hmm but if you’re self-hosting the bridges (the only option I think since they generally have to run on the same machine as the Matrix server) that man in the middle is yourself 😉
Of course you do have to trust the code, but it’s all open source.
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