element webapp: “This homeserver would like to make sure you are not a robot.”

me: clicking on the checkbox to open the captcha

google: “Your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now. For more details visit our help page.”

I could turn off all my privacy settings, addons, and vpn, but that’s not really the point of using privacy-respecting services like matrix.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
    4·
    6 months ago

    Its goals are propagating data across multiple servers, linking and duplicating it to third parties like Discord and Slack and Facebook, and keeping it intact.

    This sounds pretty misleading, but maybe I’m just missing something.

    Do you mean that for rooms that are bridged to one of those platforms will have the messages synchronized to that platform?
    This is not the case for most of the public rooms, and in any user-created room an administrator is needed to set up bridging.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 months ago

      I definitely could have been more specific there; bridging isn’t built into their servers or rooms by default. Several use it, but definitely not all.

      Matrix’ team itself calls this feature “an important idea” and they advertise it as part of their ecosystem