Anything you post online publically is public, reddit or Lemmy it makes no difference.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.
Embedded images on lemmy are loaded directly from the servers they're stored on, often not your home instance. Bam, adversary has your ip and access time and what caught your attention.
Some servers don't do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.
I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I think the scope is way off. I read through the comments and I found things I did not expect to find here (which messenger is better) and not the stuff I was expecting to find, which is the actual survival game. Yeah sure, reliable secure telecommunications is an aspect of it, but if you really expect the US to pull a Holocaust on trans people there are several other things to think about, both before and after discussing the channels of communication.
Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people
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
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).
Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you're using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.
Fair.
However, SimpleX is very bare bones and does not have the security nor legal testing (I've not really seen an audit but maybe I missed it) meaning it cannot really be trusted yet and most normal folks won't move to it. It's been 2 years (or more) for example since someone asked for a proper iPad version and still nothing last we checked.
There's also no easy profile syncing yet.
Let alone none of the features that make Signal easy to use and fun.
Sadly Molly is only avaliable on Android and not everyone has Android on all their devices. Plus there's Linux Tablets out there which can't easily run it either.
Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though
I’m sorry, but while good for community building Lemmy and Mastodon are by definition the opposite of secure as by definition the government can see every single thing said on the platform.