Privacy

1667 readers

197 users here now

Protect your privacy in the digital world

Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.

Rules

PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!

Be nice, civil and no bigotry/prejudice.
No tankies/alt-right fascists. The former can be tolerated but the latter are banned.
Stay on topic.
Don't promote big-tech software.
No reposting of news that was already posted. Even from different sources.
No crypto, blockchain, etc.
No Xitter links. (only allowed when can't fact check any other way, use xcancel)

Related communities:

founded 4 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

159

Turkey sees huge VPN usage spike amid reports of social media crackdown (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

ActivityPub isn't good for everything, especially for privacy. Luckily SimpleX exists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, never heard of SimpleX, but I will check it out.

But to make an analogy. Bitcoin wasn't good for privacy at first. But they added features and new coins like Monero were developed with strong privacy.

So I expect there will eventually be a private ActivityPub, either "on top of" or "next to" the current one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

i mean sure, you can modify the standard enough until it's somewhat secure, but it doesn't make any sense to do so.

You actively don't want secure communication channels to be interoperable with insecure ones, they should be kept as separate as possible so there's minimal risk of leaking the important data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

+1 for simplex

https://simplex.chat/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

How would simplex even help here? Is the a Lemmy alternative built upon simplex? Or a friendica one?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

SimpleX can be self hosted

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

not sure how this is confusing, simplex is a chat app with privacy as the #1 priority; OP wanted a private alternative to whatsapp, simplex is that alternative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I missed the thing about the chat app 😅 My bad.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As in, activitypub is not suited for chatting apps. A decentralized protocol specifically designed for messaging (matrix,xmpp,simplex) would fit better here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I missed the thing about the chat app 😅 My bad.

Anti Commercial-AI license