Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
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Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
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- r/Privacy
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Does anyone have any recommendations for Element chat groups to join? All I find when I DuckDuckGo it is recommended clients that use Matrix, coding stuff, or weird sounding mathematical principles. Any groups involving FOSS discussions or ttrpgs would be great!
Xonotic's offtopic for geopolitics ;)
Jk, it's a chat for the foss game on pc
I would have made a new post but I didn't want to seem like I'm hogging the bandwidth on this group by posting so close together so I asked here. Hopefully that's okay. You've all been so helpful, thank you guys.
Yeah you know what, nah not touching Element. I joined the biggest RPG group on the site and it was all proud boys and the most professional looking InfoSec discussion board with over 1800 people is a dead group where people spammed gore pictures. Screw that, Element is a cesspool. Simplex is the winner Ding, ding ding, ding! I'm closing up shop now, I need to wash out my eyes
the one thing after playing with simplex, the 'no central id' is excellent for absolute privacy and they've implemented it a clever way. that id does let me resume a conversation between desktop and phone, using signal or xmpp. if it's possible with simplex i think i'd have to make a group (and that's only mobile to mobile, as simplex looks mobile-only)