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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I think the reaction to government requests makes them trustworthy. There was virtually no useful data to hand out on their users.
However, I personally don’t like Signal, because to me, the UI / UX is bad. I use Telegram, which is not a messenger for privacy-minded individuals and I know that. But the UI / UX is just so much better and most of my friends and family are on there, so yeah…
Sadly I’m in the same boat. I’ve been trying to switch to Matrix, but telegram is so much better in terms of features. I really miss the shared media and links functionality.
The what functionality?
Each chat on telegram holds a history of shared media, which is separated into tabs for media (pictures and videos), files (any other files, including uncompressed images), links (every shared link, probably the most useful one), music and so on.
It’s really handy if you remember you’ve sent someone a link to an article and don’t want to scroll through 5 months of messages.
Ah, I would favour Signal to Telegram as it has privacy and shared media. In Signal, on a chat, clicking … and All media, you can do that. I can imagine Matrix hasn’t got that level of maturity yet but I haven’t tested.
Telegram UX is way better. Signal has good UI for me. Signal lacks features.
What like? What is a better feature than privacy?
Privacy is solid “feature”, definetly. It lacks UI color schemes. Some customizability. Stickers. Screen mirroring in calls.
The first 3 are real meh for me. Mirroring I can imagine is useful in some contexts though. I personally don’t need that as much as privacy :).
Agreed. Privacy is in the first place!