I've only gotten into Linux recently, but the level of excitement I have for this is off the charts

literally can't wait for it to be ready ❤️ I wish the team the best!

yep! and now you can even self host ente!

yeah that seems to be the only way, unfortunately. i do wonder for how long that will work, considering Meta wants to tie in Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp even more. idk, I'm not really tech savvy haha

i really wanted to do the same but without blocking whatsapp 🥲 unfortunately I have to use whatsapp ... is there any list out there that blocks just Meta's tracking without necessarily blocking something like whatsapp ?

yep. I use that argument sometimes , but it really depends on the person whether the "then give me your email/chat history/etc." argumeng will work.

and just like you said, people don't you reading it. They wouldn't want to see you looking through their phone. But in the context of technology, it's very abstract. Like, when Instagram's chats weren't encrypted, telling someone "Instagram can read them" may sound vague. They don't imagine how like, Meta employees maybe could have access to it, or the softwares behind it that could analyze their chats. that could all be happening, but "out of sight, out of mind!" really helps people tolerate those possibilities. Thhe frontend, the chat interface, looks OK, so yeah.

I don't think I could explain it very well, so my bad (not a native speaker), but yeah, I feel like because we are not encoruaged to think about how the software works behind the curtains, it's easy to assume that "well, I'm not a target, so why should I worry about doing this [privacy thing]?"

some DNS providers help with that, though I get what you mean