A mass exodus from Whatsapp created a great opportunity to change a whole landscape of communication tools, but seems it is already missed though.
Instead of switching to wonderful self-hosted (rocket.chat, element) or even p2p serverless (briar etc) alternatives, millions of ex Whatsapp users stuck with yet another centralized USA-based messenger - Signal.
Sad.
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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Sure it’s a centralized USA-based messenger, but if it’s end-to-end encrypted with literally no data collection why does it matter?
PRISM, backdoors, etc. https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839181861976956928 If it’s based in the USA or China it doesn’t matter how encrypted it is, both countries can legally force the provision of backdoors and not tell you about it.