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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.

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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* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This drama has never brought any good and just brings down everyone involved. He clearly has some issues and that doesn't need advertising. And that includes me he's also called an undercover agent or whatever that's against graphene because I like Firefox. In fact these comments will probably find a way back to him somehow, it's better to just not feed these things.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

I will have you know that 10 days ago, I asked on the GrapheneOS sublemmy about evidence for the alleged swatting incident, since it has been 5 months. The comment was removed by akc3n, and he banned me within hours claiming "abusive behaviour targeting project members". They are clearly hiding facts and dodging scrutiny because it was a lie all along.

They are the ones who create and thirst for drama. And if everybody starts to admit that, and NOT mention his project's name EVER AGAIN to give it publicity, the resistance from people like me will stop.

There are plenty better and more effective methods for privacy and security on Android. And it is written multiple times that we have to trust the software developer and their behaviour conduct track record as basis for it (which Micay is incapable of, as seen in the past years), because software code can be hidden in plain sight, can do a lot of things, and is never bug free. Any "bad" thing can be labelled as a bug by anyone.