Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

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.

[korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

[korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

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.

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

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.

[e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de]

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.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

But will it have the lunatics and toxic positivity?

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

Does it have categorization like eBay?

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

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

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

Facebook and twitter are not the same as signal. The signal protocol is a free open source project, that WhatsApp, Signal, and many other use. It secures the data so that whatever servers they are stored on, the company storing it does not know what the texts say. Facebook and Twitter are all about getting as much data as possible. Even though WhatsApp uses the signal protocol, they still collect all metadata with the texts (which is really what they want anyway). Moving to open source project is absolutely the long term goal to get out of this shit hole.

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

I’ve been wanting to test audio and video calls to see if I can use to play TTRPG instead of relying on discord. Sabe issue though, no one to test with. Let me know if you want to test either.

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

It's not federated, but it is an open source secure texting alternative.

[e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de]

SimpleX is cool, but fails the "my grandmother can use it" requirement. Signal has the huge benefit that is just as easy as WhatsApp. With Simplex you have to invite each of your friends individually.

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

Bluesky is a for profit company. Not the way to go.

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

Do you mean the android apk?

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

yo, fuck discord, this is by far the most important one to emulate for me.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

oh cool!