Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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PSA Use your display name to help move others to privacy respecting replacements. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by autonomoususer@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For example, on WhatsApp, use the whole 25 character limit for profile name. Examples:

Bob Moved To Signal.org

Alice MovedTo Signal.org

CharlieMovedTo Signal.org

Say Signal.org, not Signal, because they won't know it's an app.

Use your about section too. Same on Discord, Steam, Instagram, etc.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Some use open source alternatives since signal still has the off switch to your communication. I personally use matrix for over a year and its pretty good. But its not polished so you need patience and a good admin.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've started to get much more interested in SimpleX as the database management is much easier and disappearing messages exist and while that is not a privacy function it is a great database management function to automatically have messages removed

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 0 points 4 weeks ago

i can see how this would be an interesting function. sadly, we're, nowhere near an end user ready experience in any non corporate messenger. it very much still depends on how tech savvy the user and how good the admin is. until that changes I'm gonna unilaterally say no to reinventing any wheels and say fix the stuff we have before adding more functionality.