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@distopico @HistoPol @smallcircles
At this point I'm not taking the open source == good (just coz) argument at face value anymore. The future of Matrix always seems somehow, em.. unconfirmed? An interesting project. I wonder where it will go. There's been a LOT of VC funding up to now, one might assume some return is expected at some point. Maybe not though. I've run jabber servers in the past, I still have one, but federated XMPP just somehow can't seem to take hold outside of its own niche.

@distopico @HistoPol @smallcircles In general I find that false dichotomies don't help here. "Audited" code is overrated. (History has already absolved me) It may even lure into the false sense of security trap.
But yes, 95% or so of the time, if it is a question of data integrity/security, and you have the time and skill to do analysis, you're probably better of with FOSS. You might also choose to trust other people, which is what a code audit is, no?

@distopico @HistoPol @smallcircles
Rather than trying to lock down options, everybody has to find what "works" for them. There are no absolute correct choices here. For some, a good option may be no tech IM style comms at all. For others, maybe getting a genuine personal recommendation of trustworthyness from someone you trust might be worth more than "some hacker bros said it was all good." Not saying this is or is not the case with Threema. :-)

@distopico @HistoPol @smallcircles
#Threema has an f-droid repo:
https://threema.ch/en/faq/libre_installation
Actually one of the few projects taking advantage of the fact that f-droid is built to be #decentralised

@distopico @HistoPol @smallcircles
Yeah, Threema's business model is to provide the network (and the server code) as a paid service. So given that, It is not clear under what kind of open source license they could publish the server code. Once their network was big enough, supposedly they could say, yeah.. here's the code, go ahead and try to compete with us. But some of their bigger business clients might choose to run their own server.