He’s old and cranky like me 🤷

Among many other things, the person who created Mozilla/Firefox.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History

I’ve never looked into how Matrix works at all, so I can’t really speak to that.

There are six bullet points. Which ones are no longer true?

The only one I know of is point 4, in that you can now choose not to share your phone number. But, IIUC, the app uses the dark pattern of forever nagging you to share it, hoping you’ll eventually accidentally click the wrong choice.

I sure don’t know. SimpleX is suggested, among others: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

The CCP is known to have agents in western countries that manipulate and pressure ex-pats to return to China.

The seeseepee is “known” to do that if you believe Cold War II bullshit propaganda about “secret police stations.”

Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.

[Citations needed] or it didn’t happen. There’s precious little extra information that a “nefarious” instance can harvest that any basic web scrapper can’t.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: BS

Maybe I should have removed this post, because it is ridiculous.