thank you @matthew for your reply, it’s very appreciated
is awesome to have the option to make your own server, the problem is for normal users who are not able to do it, so we have to trust the server admin/owner
because all surveillance we see from big corps and governments, company like purism and alternative messagging system like matrix are welcome, but even if your intentions are the best one, people like me will be ever scared from what should be happen to our data, because we need to trust you, but we know in the age of surveliance and big data economy we can trust no one, so the best thinks you (both matrix and purism) can do is to make products/service where the data you have is essential and well encrypted from user, so you can see nothing, and the privacy policy should be essential, as i already wrote in another topic
otherwise is just about a choice to trust android-whatsapp or purism-matrix, this is not bad, but the goal is to do not have the trusting problem, chosing a service who have no visible data but just encrypted with a good, short and well readable privacy policy, where if a malicius dev or an hacker see/sells the stored data, can just access to a useless encrypted file
same for the client, i’m scaried from android apps permission, and i really hope purism will make this issue a priority, giving to the user the full power to manage it with a good user interface and popups when needed, and of course i hope matrix client will just require the permission who really need and will access to the data when WE choose to use it
i know i’m paranoid, but as i wrote we live in a big data surveillance/economy era, and freedom is really important to me, i think company like matrix and purism have this user target, because normal user will just spend 100$ for and android phone with whatsapp used by almost everyone, less money needed and less problem, i have to convince people to use matrix to comunicate with me, and every time i’ll be watched like an alien “why you are not using whatsapp?” and so on, than i will explain why i really think different, and that’s why your policies and how the service/data storage work need to be made for paranoid like me, thanks to snowden and others heroes, we know we cannot really trust people or companies, that’s why technology architecture are important more than manifesto