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is Matrix/Riot.im really private? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I haven't hosted my own matrix server yet. is it safe to join an instance? I don't really know how private that would be. the question is when I signup/login would I be giving out my IP? is the metadata private? sorry for asking this, I'm just a bit paranoid

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I use everything through TOR, I haven't found a way to use it with matrix so I asked

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Matrix clients does support connecting to Tor. For example Quaternion,Mirage has this;Element doesn't have a UI for it (it is on the roadmap) but you can use it on a browser or on desktop use the cli flag --proxy-server and on Android use Orbot in VPN mode. It also depends on the homeserver whether they allow connecting through Tor or have a policy against that. Multiple accounts too are on the roadmap for Element: on browser you have to use containers or separate profiles; on desktop use the --profile flag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

can you send me a link to the source for Element+TOR ? or can you make an example of how to use --proxy-server ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

See here. This is the issue tracking the UI for proxy too. The flag comes from Chromium; you can't use a http+password proxy though since Chromium doesn't support that too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

thank you 2000x, this is just the valuable information that I needed.

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