doodledup @ doodledup @lemmy.world Posts 5Comments 743Joined 9 mo. ago
You message only people on your server? Because if not and if you federate your instance, selfhosting doesn't make a difference. Other instances will store your social graph. You're much more private using Signal even if you don't use a VPN. Since on Signal at least profiles are encrypted. And IPs change. You can only bind create a probabilistic social tree, vs on Matrix everything is bound to your account and your domain (which doesn't change).
I don't know why I'm even arguing with you. You clearly don't understand how the underlying technology and software works. You should read up on that before coming back to this thread. I'm only repeating myself here.
Good point. Even Mozilla is changing their ways these days.
I wish there was a software exactly like Discord but federated.
No. But you can. With Matrix you can't. The Matrix servers have a plethora of profile data and metadata in addition to public information like your IP. A VPN won't help you.
https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
https://signal.org/blog/signal-profiles-beta/
I'm not aware of any equivalent implementation on Matrix.
False information again. I just pointed out James Hobbes philosophical theories.
There is no need to dig into my profile and take comments out of context. But you defended Hitler in another comment. So there's that.
You choose to not respond to my comments in this thread? I think this proves that you do actually have no idea what you're talking about and you're just here to spread fudd and fake news. Average 5 day old Russian troll account.
Yes you can prove the client! And for the server, you don't need to prove it! They can run extremely malicious code and it wouldn't change anything. That's the whole idea behind zero-trust security. You only need to verify that the client is secure and encrypts everything.
You shouldn't talk about things so confidently if you don't know the technical details of how it works.
They had no choice due to a warrant. They did provide login information to the court and sat on it for a year before telling everyone.
You mean IP address? That's literally all they had. This is no breach. Your IP is public information when you use the internet. What are you saying exactly?
Did you know that with Matrix based clients you can run your own server and instance for just you and your buddies? And the cops could confiscate your server at your house but can’t get anything, period, due to it being encrypted and yours.
The same goes for Signal. They don't have any of your data and less metadata than Matrix. If the cops raid my Matrix instance they get profile information and social trees of all my users. They don't get that when raiding the Signal servers because of Sealed Sender and other precautions that Matrix doesn't implement. **It does not matter that Signal is centralized. **It changes nothing.
Making a service decentralized does not change anything about security. In fact, because of the constraints of federation, it's even less secure and private in some ways that cannot be avoided.
Also, I'm not pushing Signal. I'm responding to the misinformation being shared here.
I doubt that based on the little technical understanding you show.
But if you do, explain to us how they are able to build a social tree when the users involved use a VPN? (Note that Sealed Sender is enabled by default). If there is any novel security insight that you discovered please share it!
Well then search and share it. I feel like you're some kind of shill that's payed to say these things. You have no technical understanding of how this works and you also won't share any sources whatsoever.
Und wer Steine schmeißt hats auch verdient zu geschlagen zu werden.
Why does it need to be federated? It's European just as well.
Also, having tried Matrix: it's terrible. The UI is really bad. Calls and Screenshare is not functional.
Matrix is terrible as Discord alternative.
I'd trade US servers for a more secure, anonymous and trusted messenger a hundret times over.
Arcane has 100 stars on Github, the server has 3. Their code is not documented at all. They have like ten contributers. Metadata is not encrypted. They don't mention anywhere what they use for encryping your chats. I don't trust this one bit.
What is this sub about?
Signal is open-source. Signal did not provide info to the US. They don't have any info to share anyways. And you can confirm that as their code is open-source. Them sharing data is mathematically impossible.
What are you on about? You seem to have no idea what you're talking about. Stop spreading unreferenced misinformation. If you have something that we don't know about share a source or prove it!
Before making an uneducated comment you should at least read the source I shared and read the corresponding whitepaper explaining it. Your comment is a bit embarressing.
If you use a VPN (hiding your IP), Signal cannot build a social tree.
If you have any questions in particular feel free to ask.
Immich has amazing AI recognition and people clustering features. It's even better than Google Photos.
Not entirely. There are many theories by various philosophers that suggest some forms of authoritarianism as the ideal form of government. Thomas Hobbes for example.
It's not always bad either. There are many scenarios where a central authority can solve a lot of problems much more efficiently.
If this question is sincere then it's not a stupid question at all.
‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app
