brzrd
- photojournalist, curator, FOSS and privacy enthusiast
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0·1 year agoThey are the caricature of organised religions.
The need for a free internet that is community-regulated cannot be more urgent. This move will indiscriminately ban any kind of speech, important traditional therapies, etc. Implemented, this will be a huge loss to our collective knowledge and ability to organise as communities.
Agreed. May best to get family and close friends on Signal right away. Telegram is horribly unsecure.
Signal desktop is designed to be a stand alone app that uses the phone phone to first verify the connection via QR but after that relays messages, calls, erc direct from and to the server, inrependently of the phone app.
Opening para from a NYT article on the Waldorf School in Silicon Valley:
"The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.
But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home."
If you are reffering to Signal then both app and server are open source. Just that the server is centralised.
For community building, try checking out SimpleX. Its open source and has an interesting take on anonynity. Plus it doesnt require phone numbers to create a user identity.
As for either being censorship resistant, I am unsure how we’ll they’d cope. But my guess is they would perform just fine in most scenarios.
Libre Wolf with uBlock preinstalled could be what you need.
This is old news, from 2022!!