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If you are concerned about metadata, run your own server, p2p won't help you here because simply put: you still need a hosted highly available homeserver, otherwise the UX and reliability will be unacceptable to most people.

Anyways, this is overstated and exaggerated a lot, people leak metadata to their ISP and their favorite cafe's wifi router all the time.

If anything that can be done it will be added to Matrix, in the meantime, it is the best there is.
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web2-enjoyer 2y ago

All the chat participants should also have their own homeservers, which would be P2P.

Regarding UX, I believe onion-routed store-and-forward is in the works.

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Nuh 2y ago

I am all for client side embedded servers/nodes, but you didn't solve much if you still need a store and forward server.

The only difference here is then, users will be custodial of the signing keys instead of the server offering availability. Is that a good thing? Depends, it comes with its pains.

Regardless, metada will still leak, that's the nature of relaying data in a performant way, as in non-onion-routing

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Nuh 2y ago

Don't get me wrong, all of that effort and work is great, it's by no means a must have and telling people that Matrix has unacceptable privacy issues, while they are using Telelgram and Twitter DM, is a bit unwise.

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web2-enjoyer 2y ago

Oh definitely. I intended to contrast it with Signal.