I wouldn’t say Matrix is secure nor turstworthy, they ignored a security vulnerability for years and many clients aren’t updated to the latest encryption library yet, not everything is encrypted by default and the company behind it cares more about businesses than the ‘normal’ person.
To all my girlies and guys and everyone else out there, while these next few years are going to be horrible to us, we have to hold strong. They chose us as the scapegoat for their problems, and we must show them that we are the real victims of this. Our pride as citizens of a free world comes before the overwhelming pressure of a potentially fascist government, and as scary as it will be, I really do have faith that we will be okay, and that the free world will be on our side. It may not even be in our lifetime, but it will come, and our actions in this day and age will determine this.
BTW I got super super drunk after the results were announced and I absolutely am going to cringe at everything I wrote
Fediverse sites are not private and secure. That is basically the entire point, it’s an open standard that shares information with whoever wants to spin up an instance to receive it.
Except using centralized social media (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) will guarantee your IP, probably location and other user data is logged onto a server, basically free for the fascists to see. Lemmy is at least decentralized, private, so more hurdles to request data from, by design not data hungry (eg. no apps that log your precise location for “advertisements”), and a lot of servers are out of the
germans(oops, true, we’re not the nazis anymore/yet) americans jurisdictions.Use tor also
Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.
I heard SimpleX is a good privacy oriented chat program.
Found a video by Mental Outlaw explaining how to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0
There’s no real evidence it is secure yet. You’re better off with Signal.
SimpleX just doesn’t have the legal testing (yet).
Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though
