"the bulk of users is either too stupid or unwilling to invest even the tiniest amount of effort into their privacy."
I don't feel the need to pull my punches.
This is the most deluded, idiotic response I've seen on hacker news in a long time.
It seems unlikely that the average person (or even a non-techie person of above average intelligence - e.g. a doctor) will be able to set up matrix in a way that is more secure than just installing signal. Your security relies not just on you but on the weakest node in your network. Getting good security might require trade-offs. Your all or nothing mindset will not achieve it. The saying "Perfect is the enemy of done" comes to mind. Perfect security (or what you purpose) is not one of the options in a secure system that has to exist in the real world.
Please remove your head from it's dark cavernous home.
Love, Me
In before "but it's not free as in no cost". That's why big corps will always fuck over the normies. As it stands, one cannot use the internet without either giving away their privacy or learning a lot about computers and how they work and how to use them.
The majority chose the "i don't care, give me shiny app" route. and they fucked us all over by doing so. There's no right to easy privacy friendly computing. There's only the harsh reality that behind friendly blue and rainbow colored companies sit people that will sell a digital recreation of yourself to anyone who cares to pay and give you a few gigs of free e-mail space and a shiny app for it.