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Signal has vocally opposed the UK bill and said it may pull out of the country if it’s passed in its current form. Meta has said the same for WhatsApp. Smaller companies, like Element, which provides secure messaging to governments—including the UK government—and militaries, say they may also have to leave.

I was thinking about trying to get everyone I know to switch to Matrix but, if Element goes, that could knock that on the head or will it be down to those operating Matrix instances?

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Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Element is just a front-end for Matrix - you can self-host Element and there’s nothing the government can do about it - short of a police raid to shut down your home server.

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- Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wanted to avoid it if I could, so I could offer friends and family a good general solution not making them beholden to my tyrannical whims, and it looks like the main thing Element will be doing is withdrawing the app from the general app stores. Which seems like the very minimum required to comply. I’m not sure if matrix.org will still work in the UK but most instances should unless the government block them. In which case I can self-host.
  
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  - Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s probably a good idea to avoid very big instances such as matrix.org anyways for the benefit of decentralisation. If matrix.org does become unavailable for the UK, it could become messy, since it’s unclear how well matrix will work without matrix.org as a reliable default instance for interoperation
    
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