I haven’t hosted my own matrix server yet. is it safe to join an instance? I don’t really know how private that would be. the question is when I signup/login would I be giving out my IP? is the metadata private? sorry for asking this, I’m just a bit paranoid

  • 2wT@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 years ago

    Matrix does not keep metadata completely private.

    I don’t get why you are concerned about your IP address, every service you use will be able to see your IP so if you want to hide it use TOR.

    • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      I use everything through TOR, I haven’t found a way to use it with matrix so I asked

      • bbhtt@lemmy.ml
        3·
        4 years ago

        Matrix clients does support connecting to Tor. For example Quaternion,Mirage has this;Element doesn’t have a UI for it (it is on the roadmap) but you can use it on a browser or on desktop use the cli flag --proxy-server and on Android use Orbot in VPN mode. It also depends on the homeserver whether they allow connecting through Tor or have a policy against that. Multiple accounts too are on the roadmap for Element: on browser you have to use containers or separate profiles; on desktop use the --profile flag.

        • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          4 years ago

          can you send me a link to the source for Element+TOR ? or can you make an example of how to use --proxy-server ?

          • bbhtt@lemmy.ml
            3·
            4 years ago

            See here. This is the issue tracking the UI for proxy too. The flag comes from Chromium; you can’t use a http+password proxy though since Chromium doesn’t support that too.