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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Do you prefer XMPP or Matrix powered apps as a discord alternative? (lemmy.fedioasis.cc)

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Do you prefer XMPP or Matrix, or are you using something else entirely?

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[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah the self-hosting thing is new, its really clunky and they dont encourage you not to use it. I think (?) they may have even discontinued it.

Its odd to me that Signal is supposedly the gold standard yet it breaks all these privacy 101 rules. Such as requiring you hand over your phone number to a central authority, not really allowing you to self host, and not posting an official app on fdroid. I’ve heard that portions of its official repo are not even open source (though I haven't verified this for myself). XMPP sounds like the better choice to be honest.