Amazing how your post history illustrates you only care about one topic. Like the last time I saw one of your posts:

These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

And based on other articles from this same website, they are American exceptionalists. And not competent about technology. Here is another article of theirs, “how autocrats weaponize AI”, which was published last month and refuses to mention the Trump administration among their list of autocrats.

The article is also extremely stupid, misrepresenting how Signal works.

Encryption apps like Signal use AI to ensure secure communication and protect activists from government surveillance.

I don’t know what the author was smoking when they wrote that, but Signal does not use any AI.

Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.

God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.

ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.

The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.

He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part

It’s a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached

Glowie, also known as a Glown*****, is a slang term popular on 4chan’s /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users…

Has been since he got ousted from Mozilla for funding anti-gay stuff

All those points are about how one server communicates with itself. Federation doesn’t factor into it

Oh yeah, you can do that too. I just never have it for apps I want to clone.

In the meme, yeah. There are others though:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

Kind of ironic considering that with Matrix…

• Forward secrecy is kinda hosed
• they store metadata permanently on their servers by design
• A ton of stuff that would otherwise be invisible and signal is visible in your Matrix homeserver, including permanent history of all group membership
• Your data does not belong to you, and that’s how the server is built to treat it, e.g.
• GDPR deletion is nonexistent (it won’t delete your username or your messages, making it less effective than on Discord, let alone Signal)

… Etc.

Ironically, older federated messaging systems like XMPP might be better by coincidence. Message archiving was an optional addition and some servers, such as the popular Riseup one, do not implement it.

Shelter is a nice FOSS app.

Samsungs also have Secure Folder…

Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they’ve already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with “the most backdoor looking bug” with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.

Their new shopping toolbar is coming next. At least Pocket was universal. The Shopping Toolbar will only be for three websites:

Amazon USA
Walmart
Best Buy

You know, the biggest brick and mortar monopoly, the biggest online sales monopoly, and the biggest tech chain.

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