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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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submitted 2 weeks ago by Mettled@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is there anything like a SimpleX group chat to join for us to talk, or should one be started?

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[–] 7eter 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Why is this not linked in the sidebar?

edit: No matter what one thinks about the privacy aspects of Signal: If its an official discussion group of this community it should be in the sidebar - just like the Discord group. I therefore assume it's unofficial or maybe not even related to this comunity?

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

IMO because it’s a Signal group and you can’t separate user profiles and have to register with a phone number (yeah I know I know you have a username now). Some people including me won’t join therefore

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Don't want to Signal with randoz

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because Signal does not fully respect your privacy.

[–] GatoEscobar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If by that you mean the Unix time, then yeah, but There has been documents showing that Signal doesn't store sensitive plaintext data.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They force you to give them your phone number. No phone number = not allowed to use Signal. Plus, Signal uses servers from Big Tech (just search for it on reddit).

XMPP (mainly Snikket) is the best lightweight option.