Bait used to be believable. Any respectable family guy fan KNOWS her name is LOIS and not LOUIS. wth. Next thing ykno this fella is going to say hes never heard of fingernails4cash.com

Not if those friends care about having their data sold to advertisers.

Except companies have learned the meta, and now a bunch of search queries for Reddit are filled with ads on Reddit. (not to mention you have to use google to get their results now.)

If you want Something you can set up and forget, use YUNOHOST, otherwise learn how to use docker containers and pick any server distro. Debian, Fedora Server, Ubuntu Server, MicroOS, hell OpenWrt will all do fine.

pay to become products* FTFY

I wish. no in school suspension

I would assume ISS, then regular suspension, then expulsion

My old HS recently implemented an app to go to the bathroom. If you dont check out in the app you are written up. Source: my younger brother

Stop with the what-aboutisms because this is not the current situation.

And then no one will use Signal because there is no way someone won’t notice immediately. It is OPEN SOURCE. Look at the xz backdoor that got figured out in less than a day. Signal is more popular than a Linux tool for extracting files. Stupid statement.

Doesnt change the fact that Matrix is not a single company.

No, it isnt. Telegram is not E2EE even though they claim they are a private messenger.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

educate yourself.

The fuck does that even mean?

Oh youre on a DIFFERENT HOMESERVER than ME?

Literal brainlet behavior. “I am the chad and you are the little virgin soyjack and little virgin soyjack is on lemmy.ml”

This is a very bad faith argument. It relies on assuming that “western government bad” without any basis of statement as to WHY youre claiming this. Would you say Twitter is good for privacy too then? It fits the same argument. The western governments are currently Trying to shut it down, the EU has threatened to shut off access completely. Is Twitter good for privacy because the western governments are trying to shut it down? No. Twitter is absolutely awful for privacy. On the same card, so is telegram. Telegram can not be publically audited. Their backend is closed source. You dont know what theyre doing with your data. For all you know, they took your phone number and sold it to a bail bondsman for when they see you talking about doing crimes on their platform. They could’ve sold any data you gave to them to anyone and you wouldnt be able to prove it because theres no way for you to personally audit them. You know what you can audit? Signal, XMPP, Matrix, fuck you could even audit OpenPGP over email. The argument you put fourth is completely bad faith and is full of holes.

Just because their technical backend let’s them?

Yes. They can VERY CLEARLY SEE that the platform is being misused. Signal can’t. Signal is genuinely clueless as to what you do on their platform. If you’re going to promote your service as “privacy respecting” and not mean it, you better count on any world government getting on your ass for not taking down CSAM material. The difference between being ignorant and being irresponsible is ignoring the issue after you’ve been made aware of it.

Terrible take, as as much as I hate to admit it, Meta doesnt have a “Monopoly”. An Oligopoly can be argued, but there are clear alternatives for all 4 of their big apps that are mainstream and used by millions. Signal, Telegram, Snapchat, Tiktok, Discord, Tumblr, Pinterest, the list can go on and on… Not to mention if we’re looking to “break a monopoly” we shouldnt be going to closed source bullshit to let someone else come in and make another monopoly. We know nothing of Telegrams back end. At least Signal has theirs open source.

Yeah I did, Ive been up a bit too long. I would think anyone on telegram doing piracy would move to signal, XMPP or matrix at this point though. (that is granted, there is still thousands of redditors just doing it out in the open so, maybe not)

Matrix spec is E2EE by default. Just because popular rooms turn it off does not mean Matrix is not encrypted. Frankly if a room is public, why does it need E2EE? A fed could join a 1k+ room all the same, encryption or not and just download the messages.

Matrix isnt a corpo shill singularity. Its a large amount of home servers talking to each other. This is like comparing the concept of email to being the same as telegram. You could target AOL, or Yahoo, ProtonMail, Google and on and on and on, but just saying “Matrix” isnt correct for this argument.