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by dartos 558 days ago
> centralized model is far superior to an arbitrary and unknown number of parties receiving metadata about messaging.

One opaque MITM is worse than 1000 MITM whose inner workings are bound by a secure protocol.

That’s how the internet works. Your connection doesn’t always go directly to the server you want.

Either way, you can run your own network of matrix nodes which are isolated from the rest of the open matrix network.