!ozoned@lemmy.world

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  • XMPP or Matrix. I’m on Matrix only because I have my family there and I was there before I knew of XMPP and at this point I can’t turn that boat.

    Signal was/is (idk if they still are) into crypto, they don’t let you run your own server or client, and they have a proprietary shim in place to combat spam (or so they say, it can’t be audited because it’s proprietary).

    I was all in on Signal until the above.






  • I don’t agree with the Lemmy dev and won’t read his stuff, but I also stopped using Signal years ago. First they won’t allow third party appa or self hosted servers, then they got into Crypto and were building a wallet and currency, which is their right, then they announced a proprietary closed source part of their application that can’t be auditted in the name of fighting spam. Yes there’s a blog post out there about it that they themselves posted and no I can’t look it up atm. I’m personally tired of sacrificing privacy for the name of security so I left.

    I moved to Matrix and Element. I have my entire family on it, all nontech folks except me, and none of them have any issues. We use it for text and video constantly and have for years. It’s gotten very intuitive.

    To each their own, but Signal isn’t the bastion of free open source privacy anymore imo.




    • Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
    • Joplin - Note taking app
    • Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
    • Miniflux - RSS reader
    • Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
    • Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
    • GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
    • Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
    • SearXNG - Search engine
    • Conduit - Matrix server - chat
    • Libremdb - IMBD frontend
    • Invidious - Youtube frontend
    • Nitter - Twitter frontend
    • Libreddit - Reddit frontend
    • Rimgo - Imgur frontend
    • Proxitok - TikTok frontend

    Failed to get working:

    • Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
    • Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
    • Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn’t get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I’ll try again someday.