In June 2023, Beeper became the first member of The Matrix Foundation.

LOL.

I’ve never particularly trusted the corporation behind Matrix messaging. They disrespect the GDPR openly in ways not even Discord does (a GDPR compliant deletion request from a British Matrix.org user to Matrix.org will result in no messages or usernames being deleted).

Matrix’s primary goals are keeping your data online as permanently as possible and replicating it across as many services (including more explicitly anti-privacy ones) as possible.

Right after you promise to convince all their moneyed interests to accept those changes into the repositories they manage

There’s also privacy issues with Matrix:

• Account deletion on Discord: username becomes [deleted]
• Account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username
• GDPR-compliant account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username

Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse

Edit x2: I can’t place a parenthesis to save my life