Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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You don’t need to have a YouTube login to watch those. But you can join Peertube to post your content that you make without money as an end goal.

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Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It really looks like they managed to make an ID less chat as simple as possible. But the undeniable benefit of using one’s phone as ID is that when people switch, their contacts are already there. I think that friction alone will prevent normies from adopting it.

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Sometimes you’re ashamed of the ugly hacks you cobbled together to reach MVP, and you want to fix the stuff you know you need to fix first before being thrown to the wolves. I can respect that, for a limited time.

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One thing to keep in mind: briar DOES disclose MAC addresses for all interfaces, to enable contact discovery and routing.

Not a show stopper, but it is something to be aware of.

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Zero trust means there’s no trust assumed on the protocol - I.e. it distrusts all actors and the protocol takes steps to work in that trustless environment. I don’t know how that applies specifically to matrix.

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in these groups theres often someone that just cannot install a new app because their phones storage is full and they can't afford a better phone (or just don't want to spend money on it). i wouldn't insist with these people and just accept using whatsapp

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For a lot of FLOSS projects, it's common to keep the initial team small, so a product can be delivered fast, and gets opened up later.

It's to solve the "too many cooks" and prevent bikeshedding.

A lot of corpo espionage is there solely to tank potential competitors, which include FLOSS projects.

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It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing. If you have a decent ad blocker and don’t interact, even if you’re logged in, you’re already out of YouTube. Leave your interactions and uploads to Peertube.

I’ve removed yt from my phone and it was a positive change. I just watch stuff I get like sent or I search for. No more rabbit holes. Also no ads, background playback, playback with the phone locked… the only drawback is that closed captions don’t work full screen.

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I got my family out after some high profile data breaches on WhatsApp. We feel a lot safer sharing personal info over Signal and the switchover was painless. Even the video calls are great on signal.

There’s inertia, for sure, but once you highlight that some evil corp isn’t the one handling grandma’s inheritance data, it makes for a compelling case.

We all still have WhatsApp because we need to talk to the others. But our family chat only exists on Signal now.

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Bluesky is just Twitter but with a different techbro in charge

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I'm on Mastodon and I see plenty of activity, I don't miss twitter at all. I see less activity on Lemmy tbh

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I’ll link my previous comment and add that it’s easier for Brazil.

Lembra de quando prenderam uns políticos pelos bate-papos do Telegram? É só lembrar a tua família que o WhatsApp tem a mesma fraqueza. Pergunta se eles confiam no Zuckerberg outra mandar os dados bancários que toda família manda de vez em quando. Documentos escaneados, dados pessoais…

Não consegui convencer os meus amigos mas confesso que poderia ter sido um pouco mais insistente. Quando o pessoal manda screenshot de transação bancária pelo wpp pra acertar conta de bar, dá pra dar uma instigada de leve. “A AI do Zuckerberg adorou ver os teus dados.” E deixa assim, vez por outra um comentário curto pra elevar a consciência de privacidade das pessoas. Uma hora vem. Ou não, mas tás fazendo tua parte.

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It means that, because signal mandates you to use your phone as ID, all your phone contacts that have signal are immediately signal contacts. Matrix, XMPP, SimpleX, etc. can’t really do that. That’s by choice, to preserve privacy, but it does create a friction point when migrating.

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That is exactly what it says. They knew about security issues in their library and didn't fix them for years. This isn't being ignorant, this is negligence.

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This time it will be different, because... err it is not the same time as last time

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But will it have the lunatics and toxic positivity?

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Does it have categorization like eBay?

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Signal is open source. They absolutely do always comply with US warrants. They have never provided any information to US law enforcement, because they can't access it. They literally have no way of accessing the information contained inside the texts. The most they could provide is metadata, but they currently aren't collecting that. I also think if they started, it would not work well for their user base. You can see all their requests for information, and the responses they gave, here: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

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I actually think the facebook format is great, and I miss it despite having NO desire to use anything meta owns.

Friendica has the unenviable position of trying to convince people what sucked about facebook was not inherent to the format of social network.

I need to try it out!

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I mean, loops is missing a lot too. Matrix is quite there already.