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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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It seems like everyone in my university uses discord for communication which is way more fitting imo, I cant imagine having a single group chat for everything
Same, we used Discord and Matrix for university clubs.
Discord is really the most feature rich and user friendly chat app available. If someone says they use Telegram or Signal, I generally raise an eyebrow.
Feature rich? Probably. User friendly? Bro skipped doing a hot take and went straight to supernova.
Why not element? Element has something similar to servers as well.
Because “nobody” knows what that is.
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Telegram has plenty of features for larger groups, too. Easily enough for acquaintances and schoolmates. Considering how easy creating group chats is you don’t have to have a single one for everything.
Why do you raise an eyebrow for Signal? As far as I know, it’s much better than Discord, from a privacy perspective.
I use Discord because that’s where everyone is. Signal and Telegram raise an eyebrow for their E2E encryption, which in practice, is marketing only. It’s a matter of time before E2E doesn’t cut it and law enforcement and governments possess keys. I don’t divulge personal information about myself over Discord, so there’s no data points to connect to a real person. Generally, the privacy focused folks use these other apps because it helps them coordinate certain political actions that I find repugnant. If I need to communicate privately, I speak in person. If I need to talk to someone digitally, I’ll email them.
That’s why you only use open-source E2EE like Signal. There’s no way to slip in a back door without a bunch of people noticing, sounding the alarm, and forking the project.
I like how you just assume that the content of the messages is the only thing they care about. The app is proprietary goddamnit.
This us silliness based around false notions about people who value privacy. It’s one step from saying “you have nothing to worry about if you’re nor doing anything wrong,” which is an absurd idea, especially now when we’ve seen firsthand the effects of social media disclosing information that leads to the prosecution of people who have abortions and the non-consensual outing of LGBT+ people.
Personally, I feel like there are more eyebrow-raising aspects about continuing to use apps like Facebook and Instagram when we know how hostile and intrusive they are to our personal data.
Moreover, it’s not just harmful groups that need privacy. Safe communication tools are also important for groups that seek positive change, such as BLM, LGBTQIA groups, and anti-fascists.
We are in a privacy community, or am I mistaken? All this is just privacy 101.
Discord is not very privacy-oriented. We‘re in a privacy-oriented community here, so Discord should raise an eyebrow, not Signal, which is famously privacy-oriented.