mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoGiving Up on Element & Matrix.orgxn--gckvb8fzb.comexternal-linkmessage-square178linkfedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down119
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minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 days agoThe argument has always been, if when chat rooms are public, anyone can join and start logging the chats, encryption does nothing. It has the ability to connect over TLS, but that’s about it. I loved using it for its simplicity, except when using all the different flavours of nick registration (Q, NickServ, …).
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoThere is some nuance here. It would be nice to not have your identity publicly linked to your IP address, which is not always the default on IRC. That’s the main privacy concern I know about I guess.
The argument has always been, if when chat rooms are public, anyone can join and start logging the chats, encryption does nothing.
It has the ability to connect over TLS, but that’s about it.
I loved using it for its simplicity, except when using all the different flavours of nick registration (Q, NickServ, …).
There is some nuance here. It would be nice to not have your identity publicly linked to your IP address, which is not always the default on IRC.
That’s the main privacy concern I know about I guess.