Fediverse sites are not private and secure. That is basically the entire point, it's an open standard that shares information with whoever wants to spin up an instance to receive it.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Except using centralized social media (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) will guarantee your IP, probably location and other user data is logged onto a server, basically free for the fascists to see. Lemmy is at least decentralized, private, so more hurdles to request data from, by design not data hungry (eg. no apps that log your precise location for "advertisements"), and a lot of servers are out of the ~~germans~~ (oops, true, we're not the nazis anymore/yet) americans jurisdictions.
Use tor also
Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.
yup, what you post publicly is public. It's the reason I find it irrational when people are complaining about X now lets blocked users see your posts. Your posts are public, people who created a fresh account can see your posts, it is already public, blocking stopping them from viewing your posts only gave you a false perception of privacy.
The only advantage of fediverse is you can choose an instance that doesn't sell your browsing habits, other instances can only see your public actions like public posts and votes.
PGP!!!!
To all my girlies and guys and everyone else out there, while these next few years are going to be horrible to us, we have to hold strong. They chose us as the scapegoat for their problems, and we must show them that we are the real victims of this. Our pride as citizens of a free world comes before the overwhelming pressure of a potentially fascist government, and as scary as it will be, I really do have faith that we will be okay, and that the free world will be on our side. It may not even be in our lifetime, but it will come, and our actions in this day and age will determine this.
BTW I got super super drunk after the results were announced and I absolutely am going to cringe at everything I wrote
I think it was beautiful.
I heard SimpleX is a good privacy oriented chat program.
Found a video by Mental Outlaw explaining how to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0
Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though
There's no real evidence it is secure yet. You're better off with Signal.
SimpleX just doesn't have the legal testing (yet).
Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you're using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.
Fair.
However, SimpleX is very bare bones and does not have the security nor legal testing (I've not really seen an audit but maybe I missed it) meaning it cannot really be trusted yet and most normal folks won't move to it. It's been 2 years (or more) for example since someone asked for a proper iPad version and still nothing last we checked.
There's also no easy profile syncing yet.
Let alone none of the features that make Signal easy to use and fun.
Sadly Molly is only avaliable on Android and not everyone has Android on all their devices. Plus there's Linux Tablets out there which can't easily run it either.
I wouldn't say Matrix is secure nor turstworthy, they ignored a security vulnerability for years and many clients aren't updated to the latest encryption library yet, not everything is encrypted by default and the company behind it cares more about businesses than the 'normal' person.
A friend of mine also shared this
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I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I think the scope is way off. I read through the comments and I found things I did not expect to find here (which messenger is better) and not the stuff I was expecting to find, which is the actual survival game. Yeah sure, reliable secure telecommunications is an aspect of it, but if you really expect the US to pull a Holocaust on trans people there are several other things to think about, both before and after discussing the channels of communication.
Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people
The first step is networking through secure communication, especially at this early stage where we simply can't predict what is or isn't going to happen. Don't underestimate the importance and value of communication.
Yeah sure. That would have prevented the Holocaust, a public Matrix server.
Take care
Anything you post online publically is public, reddit or Lemmy it makes no difference.
It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.
Embedded images on lemmy are loaded directly from the servers they're stored on, often not your home instance. Bam, adversary has your ip and access time and what caught your attention.
Some servers don't do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.
Why not share text as text? What about accessibility?
Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here's the text
Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.
Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.
As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.
Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat
Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:
hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender
Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:
pixelfed.org
Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:
lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog
Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org