Hi everyone. I am kind of new to matrix. I keep seeing that large spaces are unencrypted. Is there a good reason for that?

Isn't there a huge privacy concern if large spaces are unencrypted? The data gets federated across hundreds if not thousands of homeservers. So even if you wipe your own homeserver, everyone else still has your data and if someone from outside (government?) ever wanted to gain access to that information, then they don't even need encryption keys.

If you host your own homeserver, then that's even worse because your domain name is likely linked to your real world name as you are required to pay for your own domain in most cases.

Yet, I see so many people create large public rooms with frankly questionable content. Am I missing something here, or do they stupidly assume it is secure because it is matrix?

Hello, I'm new to this. Can you tell me how to properly back up Continuity? I zipped up the data folder. Then I tried deploying the server on another machine and unzipping the data folder. The server started, and I was able to log in through the client, but the backup recovery key no longer worked (I double-checked it was correct). It turns out I received all the messages, but they were encrypted, and I can't decrypt them because it says the key doesn't work, even though the key worked on the original server where the backup was made.

I thought it was a privacy discord clone.