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  • Signal Private Messenger is free open source, works on everything. Your grandma could use this.

    I have slowly migrated all of my friends and family to this over the last few years.

    All of the big 'encrypted' messengers like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger use the Signal Protocol under the hood but insert their own shady business and tracking defeating a lot of the purpose.

    There are other perhaps more anonymous options like SimpleX or XMRchat but they are not practical nor needed for most threat models.

    Matrix is not quite mature enough but is a better option than discord for gaming communities.

    Signal everyday. I would not recommend Telegram. DYOR.

  • New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.
  • My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with.

    I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me.

    If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved.

  • Is Lemmy Federation with Aether possible?

    Aether is a reddit alternative not dissimilar to Lemmy in that it is distributed and open source.

    Some advantages to Aether over Lemmy are:

    It is entirely decentralized rather than federated giving it superior censorship resistance and smooth horizontal scalability. Each user on the Aether network acts as a node operator allowing other users to connect and view the communities that they subscribe to.

    Moderators within each community are elected by, are impeachable by, and their decisions can be individually ignored by the users of each community. All mod actions are public information and, as mentioned, each mod action or moderator can be ignored by each user. This maximizes the accountability of the network and greatly reduces the chances of censorship.

    The biggest flaw with Aether is that it is not currently maintained (to my knowledge). With such a massive migration of users to Lemmy and the Fediverse as large, I would love to see an increased interest in decentralized solutions like Aether.

    Would it be technically feasible for Aether to join the fediverse through modified Lemmy instances? If so it could act as a silver bullet to enable horizontal scalability of the network at large.

    I welcome any discussion on the topic.

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    Can the Number of Federated Instances be Increased for Linux.community please?

    At the moment there is slim pickings for other communities to join if this instance is chosen by a user to be their home server.

    Presumably other instances have to approve linux.community federating with them before their subs can show up? Is it that this instance is new, or is there some other reason. u/nkukard can you chime in?

    EDIT: A-ha! I was searching poorly! Once a member of a instance subscribes, it pulls it into that instance for easier discovery. Neat!

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