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Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries..."

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[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Matrix is in fact decentralized but in reality it is not so much, I don't know the number exactly but the majority of users use the matrix.org server

[–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those numbers only include instances that have telemetry enabled

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have numbers without?

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How would you?

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No clue, not familiar with Matrix to that level.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, that's not specific to Matrix. Telemetry is the tool used to get the numbers, so I don't see how you would collect numbers on servers that don't report numbers.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theoretically they could be reported by federated servers that do have it enabled

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 3 points 4 months ago

But you would miss all the numbers from non-federated instances.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Im surprised there are zero calls to any official matrix server(s) from those instances.

Not even random API for metadata, update status, etc?

Telemtry is a word. It only means as much as it means in each context, and without full context it means little atm.

Do you have a resource where I could learn more about what data Matrix considers telemetry?

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 4 points 4 months ago

The whole point of not being federated is not to call the other servers. I don't run a server but I hope it's not calling home if specifically configured to not be federated.

[–] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

People who live in countries where DNS and IP blocks are common probably use a different server. I've been running my own for over a year and it works like a dream