That and the nature of this community lol. I think everybody reading this would prefer federated/distributed communication over centralized control.
Nazis on a server? Don’t visit that server. Nazis visit your server? You got some simple decisions to make on if your server is going to be a Nazi server.
End to end encryption provided by a corporation isn’t for show. Instead of a dump with everybody’s conversations, now a cop has to physically pay a visit and take the phone.
This doesn’t help you when you are targeted, but at the population level this has actual effects of cops having to have to do their jobs.
Many people see it as theatre. I see it as a lot better than just keeping everything in plaintext.
As a laptop owner, I can’t make the switch until they offer a toggle or a terminal guide on limiting charging to 60% of battery.
lol wut? Proton vpn sucks on Linux.
Should just introduce a list feature. Share lists of servers and have upvotes on them and subscribe counts and description of the list. So looking into Linux lists, you can see that the top list has most of the communities, a few that are excluded for whatever reason, most people subscribing to that list.
Mostly just talked about Mastodon. And the researcher thinks Bluesky is on the same path as Twitter, given its venture capital investors.
Analogy he used was comparing fediverse to e-mail, and how successful that was.
It seems like Lemmy should offer really easy research data for people to back these claims up. Like just counting “Lemmy sucks” vs “Lemmy is awesome”
It’s how grandpa did it, and his grandpa, and his ……. /s
It’s just a public discord server but half baked. Its attempts to add “privacy” just slow it down and increase resource needs, and so it’s worse off than discord.
Their solution? Don’t turn on encryption for public rooms.
At least simplex is actively trying to solve the large encrypted groups issue.
Protonmail
Their original purpose was when twitter had limits on how many characters you could use no?
Yeah but phones have had a problem where using the main chip for encryption would basically use all the battery. For a while Apple was the only one who didn’t have this issue because they included dedicated chips to handle the encryption. So they were even able to jump in to the “whole phone encryption” by default. While android phones had to leave it as a checkbox in settings that would eat your battery.
I just don’t remember if google ever got around to addressing the issue.
Last I heard it’s the only phone with a dedicated encryption chip, so encryption of everything doesn’t burn your battery. Is this still true?
Signal will now allow your old messages being exported to another device. Previously needed to do a full transfer to another device.
Recommending to friends and family means Signal. With a phone number they can start using the gold standard for encryption from the get go.
How is this related to privacy? Seems like he’s pretty public about his views.
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Disabling JavaScript in and of itself is not something I understand as a viable way to interact with the internet.
Almost all the Tor de-anonymization attacks rely on JavaScript. Not being pwned is a standard of living many users are willing to live under. Plenty of actual text and images are still viewable over tor this way. And if you can’t access content on one site this way then that site wasn’t respecting your privacy.
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Found the Nazi lol