If anything I use them for everything because I find it much easier / faster.

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Worth mentioning that I could not for the life of me get Jami to work in any way the last time I tried it; I’ve seen many guides and overviews, but couldn’t find a single one where it’s actually successfully used. Cool idea, though

Same reason I use emacs org-mode 👍

The way I see it, community-based social media is a public forum, where every post / comment is public (Obviously less applicable on an individualized platform like Instagram). Everyone has an inherent right to privacy, but not when they’re using a platform like Lemmy. Twitter and Facebook are fundamentally different platforms. You can’t expect privacy while using lemmy, so use a different platform to post private content.

Never has been, no default e2ee, and those exploits that leaked a ton of users locations.

Not to mention, no messenger is verifiably private unless it is fully open source.

“Here’s what someone who has never created a private messenger thinks about Whatsapp’s privacy.”

Why would anyone care about what he has to say? 💀

And Newpipe has a forked version with Sponsorblock integration. Or, Libretube has it built in as well.

I use an rsync bash script and a 1TB SSD. I keep media unencrypted, and use Veracrypt containers for any sensitive data I need to back up.

Added an obligatory disable cryptocrap to make it slightly more bearable

They know your relationships with other people, and could infer things about you which will be stored in their servers regardless of whether you have a Facebook account, I believe if you search for “shadow accounts” you can read more about that

You could compile the software yourself, and the builds they do publish are reproducable, therefore any hidden malicious code would almost certainly be noticed in any popular application.

Metadata is all the content of a message besides the actual text content of the message (i.e. what you type). Examples would be the date and time it is sent, what users these messages were sent to / from, and the IP addresses of both parties. (The availability of metadata varies from messenger to messenger).

I like this example: If you only text your Aunt Sally, who lives in Alaska, twice per year to wish her a happy birthday and Christmas, just by looking at the metadata someone could infer the meaning of your messages, as well as your relationship to the person you’re messaging. To a point this is true about any messages you sent.

As for Whatsapp specifically, it being end-to-end doesn’t really matter imo, as the application is not open source and is owned by an advertising / social media company. As long as the code is closed source, you cannot be sure:

1. That your messages are encrypted at all
2. That your encryption keys are kept on-device, and not plainly available to a centralized party
3. That the encryption the application is using is securely implemented

At least for applications handling truly sensitive information (for the average person only their messenger and browser), you should be using open source software. The easiest recommendations I can make are:

1. Browsers: Firefox, Thorium, Brave (disabled all cryptocrap)
2. Messengers: Signal, SimpleX Chat, XMPP

Anyways, I hope this was a satisfactory answer.

mpv works flawlessly for me if frontends aren’t working.

According to the founder of the website, Brave’s developers have implemented changes specifically targetting issues on this site, and thats why they’re rated so highly. I believe if you look back to older releases of the test, you’ll see Brave not doing nearly as well.

Lmao if you’re reading this, do not use RiseUp VPN.

I use Fennec and Brave.

Yes. Just go to their channel page, right click, view page source. Search the source code for channelid=(long string of letters and numbers)

Put this into your feed reader: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=(long string of letters and numbers)

RSS feeds are what set me free, and they’re actually much more reliable, YouTube can’t seem to create working subscription notifications.

If now that youve left the groupchat your roommates just forget to invite you, even if that what they’re used to, that says A LOT about your friends. I disagree that sending you a message is “out of their way”, it takes an infintismally amount of effort to message someone a time and place. Also, messaging you just is not out of their way, its right in their path if anything. (Assuming they have any desire to see you)

Ah, I totally misunderstood. Downvote recinded !

EDIT: I actually double misunderstood, I hadn’t even realized the guy I was responding to mentioned bill reminders at all, my bad !

That comparison makes no sense.

I would say not inviting that person is doing it intentionally, as everyone knows that person isn’t in the group chat. Also, it does not make you much harder to invite, it’s literally just letting your friend know outside of the group chat.

If your friends leave you out of things for this reason, they don’t want to hang out with you very much.

If the friends in the group chat don’t hit you up individually to let you know about those things, then why would you want to spend time with them in the first place?

At that point, use Mint.

This is another great resource, although keep in mind some of the rankings are somewhat flawed, as Tom Spark uses a data-driven approach to ranking. For instance, ExpressVPN is ranked above Mullvad largely because it performs a lot better and is much more polished, but I would always recommend Mullvad over Express.

However, in terms of finding out how VPN’s compare in functionality and performance, there is no better resource.

If you mean Torguard, they’re actually extremely cheap if you don’t care about streaming compatibility. Using an affiliate link gets you 50% off.

GMaps VW (android only) + Organic Maps is the best open source mapping solution imo.

From everything I’ve read, it is fully open source. What parts of the browser are not open source?

Because I never got very good speeds from Proton VPN, and the feature parity has never been very consistent especially because I use Linux. I get much better speeds from Torguard and they allow port forwarding, and have an overall much more feature rich Linux client. I still subscribe to and recommend Proton, I just don’t use their VPN or password manager.

+1, the minescule amount of extra work (moving some files to your firefox profile’s directory) is well worth it over just using Librewolf

Used to use Proton, now use Torguard.

Trust is a sliding scale. The majority of Braves code (at least for their browser) is open source, this means you should at least trust them more than companies whos products are wholly proprietary.

RSS feeds help me a lot, replaced instagram for news and the last thing I was using my google account for, YouTube subscriptions.

That doesnt really have anything to do with what I said?

That said, the reason Edge feels like good enough for you is probably because you don’t know very much about / haven’t tried other browsers.

On that last point, nope.

I will personally stay on the internet instead of what essentially amounts to google intranet.

Lmao you’re getting downvotes for the most innocuous possible comment.

What a weird response, three paragraphs and absolutely 0 relevant information.

The security risk their signing process introduces. My guess would be Signal wants a 0% chance of a malicious client being distributed, hence why they only allow direct apk downloads (which self-updates, essentially making an F Droid build obsolete) and Google Play. I would also guess this is why Signal only packages a deb package (if anyone knows a better way to run Signal desktop on fedora [besides the flatpak] than my current solution of spinning up a Mint Virtual Machine [maybe distrobox?] please let me know!) and literally has no official support for rpm based distributions.