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submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You don't understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn't really another choice.

You don't understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.

You don't understand, we CAN'T be on f-droid.

You don't understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.

Did I miss anything?

[–] ZenAspirate@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Self hostable as well

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Yep.

Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.

Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can IRC even be encrypted?

[–] gloomweaver@forum.guncadindex.com 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, for... Decades?

[–] ZenAspirate@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I got my family on sxc over a year ago it works pretty good for us

I was like if I'm gonna make them all switch apps anyway I may as well go for gold lol