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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I feel like WhatsApp should be in the middle. The app is terrible, but the messaging is actually encrypted. We paranoids also appreciate Signal, and Element disappointingly gets no play here.

Also:

*believes not every company is inherently evil*

It's kind of weird, then, how they all end up doing evil stuff, including the guys that explicitly set out with the philosophy "don't be evil".

We can all tell conservative is supposed to be the enlightened one, but unless the creator is using a very malice-driven definition of evil (as opposed to including accidental evil) this line is an own-goal.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

actually encrypted

Last time I checked (which has been a while admittedly) they used their central server for key exchange, meaning the whole encryption is compromised.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Last I read, you can’t use WhatsApp without sharing your contacts. This helps Meta build its shadow profiles and keep tabs on folks not even using it. The metadata is also often just as valuable as the actual contents.

But eventually the “you’re the product” instance will dawn on ya.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I guess I am a cross between “Normie” and “Conservative”. I use macOS and Fedora daily, I watch MKBHD but also watch FOSS YouTubers. I use WhatsApp, but only because, in Netherlands, it’s impossible to live without it. I don’t use any Chromium, and I use Firefox, but I also use Safari.

Fuck getting labeled.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

What a bunch of bullshit.

I self-host my stuff because it's cheaper, I run Gentoo since the last 15 years and use Chrome because it's just better and friendly. I also have a Xperia android phone and really, really don't like MKBHD.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Somewhere between Normie and Tech conservative?

Real bummer that Signal decided to shit the bed.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wait what happened to Signal?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Tech conservative, apparently. Although fuck big tech, you can achieve the sake thing with decentralised federated services or blockchain (in some cases).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Tech conservative. Still use Windows unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think I'm somewhere in between two and three.

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