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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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Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? (hachyderm.io)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] onlinepersona 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And "super easy" to use. To get your friend onto it, first you have to host a server, then they have to install a client with an interface from the 90s, activate the XEPs for encryption on their client and ensure the server supports it too, exchange usernames, create an encrypted connection and exchange random codes over another medium to ensure you're talking to the right person.

NOW you can start chatting with the other person and hope the server doesn't crash. ECPC

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

XMPP is nice, but OMEMO is brittle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haven't ran into issues with it yet, and this is my preferred PM method. When does it break?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

One account, multiple devices logging into it (in my use case, personal laptop, work laptop, two phones).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Or, you can skip the unhinged rant, use monocles or dino, and a public server.

Also, hosting a server is much simpler than something like matrix. You can host an xmpp server on a pi and that is more than enough. Or, just use a public server.

So difficult.

I like how you included steps that absolutely aren't required and haven't been for like a decade to make your statement more hyperbolic.