I know that Signal is the normie tier "privacy" app, but it's a nonstarter for me because it requires a phone number. I've been using SimpleX, but for some reason my messages are taking forever to get through. I think it's an issue with their servers. Regardless, I need a privacy oriented app that actually works. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Hmm, You got the matrix eco system (but to fair I have not used that for years so not kept up to date on it security) and since it is a decentralised system I'm unsure if it is what you are looking for since most central system wants to have a phone number.
What a ridiculously complicated design just to send messages around.
I'll look into that. Do decentralized systems require both people to be online at the same time? That was the nice thing about SimpleX servers. They would hold messages until the receiving device came online.
Not quite, it just require the home server to be online and then able to communicate with the other home server. You could sign up to someone else home server instead of setting up your own, Instructions for joining other home server this would work similar to how SimpleX and other works from a user perspective (ofc that means to some extent you need to trust that server).
If you go the extra mile and setup your own then atm there is only one know stable server see Instructions for setting up your own server.
I think there's supposed to be a way to use blockchain-tech to set up Telegram account without a phone number, but I can't find much on how. Check out TON and Telegram.
There's things you could do like self-hosting XMPP, but that's not going to be something that just works for, it would take time and know how.
Be sure you hold the keys regardless, if your encryption keys live on a server somewhere, then it's only as private as the ethics and terms of service of the entity that runs the server.
Has the XMPP servers and clients improved in such way that they are more normie friendly now? or they are still more for technical users?
Prosody server is a hell of a lot easier to set up now than it and other XMPP servers used to be. It's far from normie friendly though. I don't believe it runs on Windows at all. I guess you could run it in WSL on Windows, but that's still very technical.
Clients aren't all that bad. I really only use Conversations on Android though. It's not much different than texting.
It's really just safer to assume that anything you post online or message is going to be stored on a server somewhere and can be hacked/traced generally. You can certainly wiggle your way through the system and fool it but realistically true privacy online is dead. Even the most careful people get caught eventually by someone determined.
telegram is the only other one i've heard of
I can't say anything on the quality of the security, but minds.com's chat feature is supposedly end-to-end encrypted. I use it with the fiance sometimes, mostly because yahoo messenger died, and I avoid facebook like the plague that it is these days
do ppl not use PGP any more?
Just to confirm I've had the exact same issues with signal and as near as I can work out it's a classic open source thing where certain hardware isn't supported. No idea why that would cause sending message issues but it seems to be the case that this bug happens on some phones rather than others and it didn't matter what I did to reset everything it wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, they're clamping down hard on privacy these days, my best recommendation would be to go full glowie and make use of burner phones and numbers. Keep normie stuff separate and use that for whatever then have burner phones to stay truly private. Fun fact, I've also had hardware issues in the past with other open source software including Linux distros, so it's a thing, don't let anyone tell you otherwise, sometimes you can just be really unlucky.
You should stop getting high, start to think then perhaps you could use words meaningfully, haha
You honestly just don't fucking read my posts properly and then try to act like it's a win for you which is annoying. I've already pointed out that they're clamping down and nearly everything requires a phone number these days. The only things that don't are desktop/internet only stuff and you're never going to get normies to use that these days.
Either you're dumb or you're trying too hard to be a troll.
Phone number, hardware, words. It's all just chars to you? Haha.
The problem is you don't read your own text, you just throw it out as rambling mess and then get pissed when it is pointed out to you.
I don't know what kind of history you have with the guy you're arguing with, but I also found your first paragraph hard to read. I kinda just assumed you misread my post or confused Signal and SimpleX since both were in my post. I do appreciate your second paragraph though, and I hope you take this comment in the spirit it was intended because I'm not trying dunk on you.
Sorry I've got no issue with you and I do apologise for the mess up, the same logic applies to both of them, interesting that the two apps have the same sending message problems. I just thought I'd reassure you I've generally had hardware problems even with these damn messengers. I was mainly annoyed with the guy because he keeps trying to pretend someone is posting something they're not and looking at his post history predictably he has a habit of doing this with other people as well.
And here I thought we were not supposed to go through the history of others and that was something I did?
So care to present the evidence then?
By his own admission he does it to filter out no lifers and people who are below him to engage with. Combined with up there saying that calling him out is trolling, you can see that the rules don't apply to him because he is better than the rest of us.
Well, perhaps he can blame his environment, he is after all british, what can be expected of him, haha
But more seriously and perhaps a stupid question why do we get these people who think they are god's gift even in this little forum? Is it the lack of the old culture of lurking? Even tough I presume most of us are sort of digtal nomads especially in current times.
Is just to be the pope of something that drives it?
Pardon my rambling, but I just don't understand.
thoughts on the minds.com chat feature? I barely dip my toe into this stuff, but it seems to work on windows/linux/android just fine.
Minds is on it's last legs generally and is clearly operated by a skeleton crew of barely functional retards who keep breaking everything and my money is on them looking to offload the project on a rich bagholder that doesn't know any better. Avoid anything to do with that site like the plague, I treat it as lolcow material, it's sad though because it's got a community of pretty decent people on it for the most part.
That's a shame, I like the site. I mean, at least the code is open source I guess, so someone can spin it off at some point...but still...
...I suppose bitchute will disappear into irrelevance as well eventually. I still think of them as the little video platform that could, but they don't get nearly the number of hitpieces they used to...
Bitchute made the mistake of operating in the UK as far as I'm aware which is stupid for any tech company to do in the day and age if they value having any kind of control over their own content. I rant about it a lot but things are going to get really bad with the speech laws here and they have an absolute hard on for policing the internet because they see internet podcasters as the number one enemy to the political class and their hegemony.
Also yes, I quite liked the Minds site itself too, it got a community it didn't deserve, but it seems that rather like some of the communities here people prop this shit up and they have no interest in even doing light moderation.