Chris Ely (tcely@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 03:06:34 JST

This is either a very common propaganda technique or a misunderstanding a lot of people have.

The point of end-to-end encryption is not having to trust the node/server/admin/nation that your encrypted data passes through!

Not knowing who's behind the node or where it is, or even which node is going to be used, actually makes it harder to collect all of your metadata and encrypted messages.

As to the funding, it's not what matters, the control does, and that rests with the users.

@Pabamiti