[VOTE] Choose the next chat platform

[jamesmunns]

This is the implementation of RFC0351 - voting on a new chat platform. The highest voted platform based on this vote will become the official room used for the Rust Embedded Working Group.

Please read the text of the RFC for the full content, but a quick summary of the rules:

• Voting will begin immediately. Voting will be open for (a little more than) two weeks, concluding at 23:59 CEST on Sunday, 2019-06-23.
• Only selections proposed by the Embedded WG will be considered.
• Votes are made by using the :+1: emote on the comments below.
• You may vote for multiple options.
• If the top two choices are within 3 votes of each other, there will be a follow on ballot with the two highest ranking options. In case of a real tie in the second vote, the EWG Core team will break the tie.

Please feel free to discuss the options below, HOWEVER please keep in mind our Code of Conduct, and please refrain from suggesting additional platforms.

[andre-richter]

@eddyp I really don't see how the initial post in this thread could have given this impression. Its formulation is not ambiguous in any way.

[f0x52]

@eddyp Even when counting upvotes :+1: - downvotes :-1:, Matrix is still the clear winner, with 142 compared to the next follow-up, IRC at 58 (calculated with current results, since downvotes weren't saved at the end of the voting period)

[maxidorius]

A bit late, but here is a research document on privacy regarding self-hosted Matrix installs when relying more or less on default settings: https://gist.github.com/maxidorius/5736fd09c9194b7a6dc03b6b8d7220d0

[MatMaul]

And here is a recent update on that from the Matrix team: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-matrix

[ara4n]

...and for the sake of completeness, https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-synapse-1-4-and-riot-1-4/ is where Matrix finished shipping the refinements to the default configs which were called into question.