The UI is designed in such a way that it doesn't expose the user to outside servers ( by default you're on Matrix.org ) even when you press the discover button you'll see rooms from the same server.

the only way for an average user to get exposed to such rooms is by being invited to them by strangers or Bots ( so maybe there should be a way to disable community invites, especially Bot invites )

Or maybe your client didn't put much thought into the user journey and let you discover everything, even abstract/shady servers

Don't take this the wrong way, but do you lurk on Matrix everyday ? I'm not on the right ( wrong ) rooms because I only take what I need from any service, the Internet can be depressing, so my advice is to be careful

It's kinda strange, the guy reached a conclusion that the service is legit hard to control and take down by any government, but was insisting on: BUT... BUT.. BUT.. trying to stress the negative points, which by the way, they're way more apparent on other Big tech Platforms, specifically : Discord..

If you have a centralized server and that server straight out refuses to take measures against abuse ( I'm just gonna say abuse in general and that includes all things: Child abuse, Ra*e, addictive drugs..etc )

if you as a user notice these things and after you report them nothing happens... Then what ? Wait until a big news outlet notice, then they publish it on their website, and after a week or so, you'll watch the CEO walk away from court like nothing happened..

On Matrix, as a user, I can spin up my own server, make my own rules, and make sure stuff like this ( abuse ) doesn't happen, the point here is that you can't blame Element Team or Matrix Team for what happens on this system, they just make the software and people deploy it

the only thing left to blame afterwards is human nature!

Which brings me to an important question, who is his source ? they must have great control over the network to realize that Matrix ( a huge decentralized network with many servers is a pit of abuse ) !!!

without a source ? without knowing how they knew what they claimed ? this video is just a conspiracy theory in my view.. And having ties to the French government isn't necessarily a bad thing.. ( knowing that the French government spied on it's citizens, yes )

I have been using Matrix for years, and never encountered a single instance of abuse... trolls yes.. Hentai...yes ... but no shady stuff.. It's mostly nerds talking about Computers, Linux and Anime

Exactly.. "had"

Check again, it's broken now..

I haven't seen a single Mastodon instance available as TOR service.

Kolektiva dot social is Mastodon server for activists, and they have a Onion version, and they never track you like Twitter does...

there is more into the anonymity game than just using TOR, other networks has their own approaches, and TOR is not perfect

Edit: but that's another subject..

Using the same client and everything works flawlessly, do your updates buddy

the funny thing is he himself makes clickbaity videos.... like all the time

Don't trust any content "creator" especially if they have a YT channel... YouTubers wants you to click and companies wants you to buy

Congratulations on leaving Google, personally I still have an account but I never log in, it's for those rare occasions when I need it... I would say though the tricky part isn't leaving, it's staying outside forever, I have convinced some people of leaving FB and even Instagram but they couldn't resist the temptation and went back, they told me they felt bored because they had so much free time... 😐..

whaaaaaat !! 😆

I'm not so sure about that... See 👉

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

Edit : it's becoming the new dystopian trend now