Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

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

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

But will it have the lunatics and toxic positivity?

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

Does it have categorization like eBay?

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

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/

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

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!

[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!

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

I stopped with Signal. Getting coworkers/family to move to signal was enough work, but I also trust the signal protocol enough to use a centralized service

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

It’s for short form videos, it’s mimicking its competitors UX right now (namely YouTube shorts, Instagram reels and TikTok). Neither has thumb down or show you how long a video is.

As for content… the users generate content, not the software. So… how many good videos have you uploaded?

[drathvedro@lemm.ee]

Let’s say the US gov starts agressively prosecuting dissidents and certain minorities (they already do): can and should we still use signal in this case?

Definitely no. Russian government already is aggressively prosecuting dissidents and you can't join Signal there. I don't know whether it's due to sanctions or if the government is blocking 2FA SMS messages. In either case, it is impossible to join without a phone number confirmation. At least I wasn't able to. I don't see the USA being that far off with all the recent TikTok drama.

[jigglysackles@lemmy.world]

Is Threema still a good option? Anyone know?

[pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

guilded could be consider one but really matrix and revolt are the privacy ones

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

Funny, when Facebook started there was almost no one I knew there either. It was its doom. It crashed and burned before it even got off the ground. Orkut still reigns supreme.