Fediverse sites are not private and secure. That is basically the entire point, it’s an open standard that shares information with whoever wants to spin up an instance to receive it.
Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.
yup, what you post publicly is public. It’s the reason I find it irrational when people are complaining about X now lets blocked users see your posts. Your posts are public, people who created a fresh account can see your posts, it is already public, blocking stopping them from viewing your posts only gave you a false perception of privacy.
The only advantage of fediverse is you can choose an instance that doesn’t sell your browsing habits, other instances can only see your public actions like public posts and votes.
PGP!!!
I heard SimpleX is a good privacy oriented chat program.
Found a video by Mental Outlaw explaining how to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0
There’s no real evidence it is secure yet. You’re better off with Signal.
SimpleX just doesn’t have the legal testing (yet).
Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you’re using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.
Fair.
However, SimpleX is very bare bones and does not have the security nor legal testing (I’ve not really seen an audit but maybe I missed it) meaning it cannot really be trusted yet and most normal folks won’t move to it. It’s been 2 years (or more) for example since someone asked for a proper iPad version and still nothing last we checked.
There’s also no easy profile syncing yet.
Let alone none of the features that make Signal easy to use and fun.
Sadly Molly is only avaliable on Android and not everyone has Android on all their devices. Plus there’s Linux Tablets out there which can’t easily run it either.
Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though
I wouldn’t say Matrix is secure nor turstworthy, they ignored a security vulnerability for years and many clients aren’t updated to the latest encryption library yet, not everything is encrypted by default and the company behind it cares more about businesses than the ‘normal’ person.
A friend of mine also shared this
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I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I think the scope is way off. I read through the comments and I found things I did not expect to find here (which messenger is better) and not the stuff I was expecting to find, which is the actual survival game. Yeah sure, reliable secure telecommunications is an aspect of it, but if you really expect the US to pull a Holocaust on trans people there are several other things to think about, both before and after discussing the channels of communication.
Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people
The first step is networking through secure communication, especially at this early stage where we simply can’t predict what is or isn’t going to happen. Don’t underestimate the importance and value of communication.
Yeah sure. That would have prevented the Holocaust, a public Matrix server.
Take care
