alt Hacker NewsI am sure popular public Discord servers get their own share of spam, but with Matrix you can host your own, or join one of a friend you trust. That is what freedom looks like. E2EE is optional.
OTR supports IRC, but in practice either solution beats the privacy of Discord, which requires all traffic to be sent in plain text to their corporate owned databases.
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esseph • today at 12:21 PM
> OTR supports IRC, but in practice either solution beats the privacy of Discord, which requires all traffic to be sent in plain text to their corporate owned databases.
As someone who was an irc operator, I can assure you, everything from IRC was funneled into ever place it was ordered to be...
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Sure, I'm just pointing out that you're going to be losing a lot of functionality that way and it seems most people would prefer the functionality.