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 I’m just a bit paranoid

  • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 years ago

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

    • bbhtt@lemmy.ml
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      3 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
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        3 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
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          3 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.