Let’s say I want to bridge from WhatsApp or telegram to Matrix, have I gaibed something in terms of privacy? In which case would it make sense? Public group chats? Direct chats?
Using a bridge can sidestep telemetry that comes with official apps/clients. The services will also see a ping from your bridge server rather than, say, a direct ping from your mobile device. Make sure to self-host if you want to avoid introducing new parties to your communication stack.
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If you host the bridges yourself, it makes no difference to privacy.
It’s simply convenient to have all chats in one place 🤷🏼♀️
You would be exposed on both sides, instead of just one or the other.
WhatsApp fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.
Bridges help us escape this scam by cancelling its network effect. Escaping these scams bring back our privacy.
But a correctly worded auto reply works best, like this:
It isn’t really opposing the network effect, because you enable who is on the platform you want to avoid to keep using it and staying in touch with you, so they have no incentive to try your platform, if most of their contacts remain on theirs.
As you said, an automatic response is a thing that would make a difference, there is something at stake and the contact either tries your proposed platform or sees you as too extreme and drops the conversation altogetherYou’ve already left. You don’t need a bridge.
It’s for them, not you.
It lets them switch gradually and delete the bridge later.
matrix bridging decrypts the messages aswell, so even less privacy
Wrong, Whatsapp is a scam. It fails to include a libre software license text file. It never secures our messages. We do not control it, anti-libre software.
