I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it'll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here's a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

  • set a username
  • change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
  • hide your phone number
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure they don't log the IPs, but it is technically impossible to not know the IP when you're running a centralized service.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What are the "popular" alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn't allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You are welcome to audit the source code and host the backend yourself.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right?

    Don't get me wrong, it's great that you can.

    But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn't because they're hosting the wrong software.

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  • TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better).

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