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Of course, but it depends on the structure. If you have more decentralized organization (like a more open project that has external contributors, or a student organization), you still want encryption for board members, but more open access than a silo.

I am totally against centralized third party entities such as Telegram or Discord having access to conversation. It is not binary and I don't want to feed surveillance. For example you can setup matrix in such a way that new entrants to the room does not have keys to older messages. Yes, people can always screenshot and leak. But that is way different than a huge entity surveilling and possibly correlating all activity on the service.

For me, signal is good enough for example, I've run several companies and projects just on signal groups. But grouping element/discord/mattermost/slack style is also useful.

jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

I think there are two different meanings of centralized that have different implications.

On the one hand, you have massive centralized clearing houses like Telegram/Discord. On the other hand, you have a central coordinator for a specific activity.

In the olden days of the LAN party, the host’s hub was a centralized coordinator. Compared to say, Blizzard running massive WoW servers.

A centralized coordinator (in the small, ephemeral sense, like Matrix) solves for the N^2 link growth of true E2E peer-to-peer.

Agreed that massive, centralized service providers are undesirable for secure, private communications.

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Juraj 2y ago

My main beef with discord is censorship. You have a community of a thousand people, someone posts a politically incorrect meme, someone else reports it and the whole community is deleted. I know an organization that has this experience three times already.

With these centralized entities you have no control over what you build - building communities is an effort.