diff --git a/content/u/blog/chat-app-of-2021/contents.lr b/content/u/blog/chat-app-of-2021/contents.lr index 7223c46..742c9e6 100644 --- a/content/u/blog/chat-app-of-2021/contents.lr +++ b/content/u/blog/chat-app-of-2021/contents.lr @@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ This depends on what your use case is. Are you looking for a secure version of SMS, or are you looking for an organised place for different groups and tasks to be handled? The former fits the use case of Threema, Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, and the latter is better handled -by Slack, Mattermost, Rocketchat, and Matrix. We are not implying that -all these chat apps have the 3 baselines passed, but just giving you -examples. +by Slack, Mattermost, Rocketchat, and Matrix. ![](/u/image/chat-usecase.jpg) @@ -151,7 +149,7 @@ of the servers where the chat is running. It mostly becomes a crucial question in two ways. One is if you face the possibility of having to deal with -authorities - meaning you need to care which law will apply in case +authorities - then you need to know which law will apply in case you are being investigated. Two is if you care for the environmental and ethical impact of your @@ -166,11 +164,11 @@ running the server by yourself or by somebody you can trust is a big difference between some chat apps and others. Chats that offer home servers, self-hosted options such as Matrix or Mattermost give you the ability to choose, and any chat app that does not, locks you in the -chat provider's choice. +choice of the chat provider. ### 4. Decentralised or centralised -Does all of our conversation only go to one company in one country, or +Does all of our conversation only go to one company or to one country, or can it be in the different small or big streams everywhere and be independently open to each other? Most chats out there are the former, and federated chats are the latter. @@ -185,7 +183,7 @@ really strange? That's what most chats are. But what if we can stay in our own home and call each other and still can have a conversation? And the conversation does not only stay in -one house, but in everybody's house for when it's their own +one house, but in everybody's house when it's their own conversation? That's more like how Matrix imagined how chats should work. @@ -197,14 +195,14 @@ Matrix instance and talk to them. It might sound silly but it is still an important factor for a lot of early adopters and people who just gotta have their hands on the -latest groundbreaking stuff (cough). This is it. Matrix is the hottest +latest groundbreaking stuff (*cough*). This is it. Matrix is the hottest chat system of 2021 and hands down the most innovative project amongst all the chat apps out there because of its federation and security design. ## The baselines that you shouldn't compromise -A lot of us brush off the topic of privacy thinking "But I don't have +A lot of us brush off the topic of privacy thinking "But *I* don't have anything to hide." but it is not that simple. Even though you might not have anything to hide now, people who you have a conversation with might have a very different stance and you affect them with your @@ -236,7 +234,7 @@ choosing "Secret Chat" Function in Telegram. Even when the chat app can not read your conversation thanks to the encryption, some chats do access a lot of other information, such as with whom you are talking to for how often and for how long ("meta -information"). We tend to focus on not revealing the content of our +data"). We tend to focus on not revealing the content of our chat and to forget that the other information can be collected while being unnoticed.