What a dork. Glad my instance is defederated from that hot mess

It’s there a tl;dr for anyone that hasn’t been following this?

Matrix dev’s response:

sigh. If you want to play project pedigree games; Matrix was actually the result of two existing teams - one in the UK and one in France, which happened to get acquired by Amdocs and then subsequently spun out once we’d created Matrix.

That page in particular is a pile of FUD; it keeps banging on about “impressive collection of private data being sent to Matrix central servers, even when you use your own instance” which is simply categorically untrue; it looks like they misread the privacy policy of the Matrix.org server at https://github.com/element-hq/policies/blob/master/docs/matrix-org/privacy_notice.md and somehow assumed it applied to everyone’s server instances. It doesn’t, any more than https://www.w3.org/policies/privacy applies to a given random webserver on the internet :|

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562084