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It's a Google hosted service, which is arguably worse because they may as well be a nation-state unto themselves.
And the largest homeserver, matrix.org, is MITM'd by Crimeflare.
Fuck matrix.org, just selfhost.
Doable, but a huge pain in the ass because of conflicts in the protocol. I spent about a year trying to suss them out and come up with a fix but never figured it out.
Any homeserver that federates (even indirectly) with matrix.org will still have practically all the same data shared with it, just not your password.
What passwords where?
The password used to login to the homeserver
Wasn't Amazon involved here as well? It is another "nation-state".
I do not think so, no. However, Amazon is certainly big enough to be un-humorously compared to nation-states as well.
I remembered it as being AWS. Checked their blog, and the article about their spending mentions renting space in AWS and Azure too, indeed.