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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
Don't promote proprietary software
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
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Why does this community, which is privacy oriented, use Discord rather than Matrix? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On the side bar it lists the following:

[Matrix/Element]Dead

Discord

"Discord" is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as "Dead", as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's decentralized, which therefore makes it harder than even Session.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It tries its best to be user friendly tho, that's a main concern of the dev. You should hear him talk in the main support group, he's really good.

You can also connect to the dev directly to express any concerns or ask questions. He will actually listen to you and shift his focus if multiple people tell him the same thing.

However, the software is only a few years old (much younger than all the other established messengers) and may not be ready for public use yet, but surely in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm interested in the day it hits the Linux Desktop, but being even on iOS is crazy imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A cross-platform desktop client recently got released. Synchronization with the mobile app is not yet supported tho.