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@tapafon @ariadne The whole "Metadata" discussion is for the most part FUD by Signal fans.
OFC this doesn't mean I deny the problem.
- But if you are concerned about said issue then you'd already only communicate with you own private self-hosted servers that are only reachable with a VPN over Tor.
The truth is that as of now there are no good options out there, unless you consider sending #PGP-encypted messages to a self-hosted, hidden ntfy.sh server to each other.
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But if you are concerned about said issue then you'd already only communicate with you own private self-hosted servers that are only reachable with a VPN over Tor.
Again: Layering & Defining your Scope is critical.
If we expect " #TechIlliterate #Nirmies" to "migrate to #Tails & #GrapheneOS or die" they'll give us all the finger and most likely add a restraint order on top of it.
- OFC we need to work on this scope, but I'd rather offer the "best possible" than being complicit in the Starus Quo.
Feel free to name alternatives that actually work and have actual support…
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the scope is that western democracy is in a state of freefall and we are actively losing ground to fascist oligarchs in both the US and EU.
in such a scope, cute toys like OMEMO and IRC's blowfish scripts and things of the same shape like Matrix's OLM/MegOLM do not provide an acceptable level of personal assurance.
telling people to depend on these technologies as a security engineer is malfeasance.
Signal also is not truly good enough (because it is proprietary), but it is at least accessible to non-technical people and cryptographically sound.
the real answer is Tox, but somebody needs to build the plumbing to make it accessible to non-technical people.
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@kkarhan @tapafon@soc.ua-fediland.de @ariadne Isn't Tox that P2P thing? There's @cwtch developed by amazing folks like @sarahjamielewis