To most users Matrix is a walled garden under computer expert influence
The only difference between any of them to the end user is some are privately funded/operated
As technical inventions they’re all black boxes most users won’t understand
Am I to audit all the code to make sure some Matrix node hasn’t figured me out?
All blog posts like this do is reiterate for me that as clever as their understanding of a particular abstraction, programmers are opinionated humans looking to manipulate based upon the perception their insight is somehow better, like everyone else
Someone somewhere can figure out who you are because you merely use a technology. It can all be traced back to a purchase or a manufacturer or a radio tower
Pretending software can hide physical reality is weirdly cognitive dissonant
