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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.

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submitted 3 years ago by Blinky@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I see a lot of down votes and conflict in privacy communities about which one is the best, but tbh, if you're not using fb/sms/email you're pretty much the top 1% of privacy users. So as far as we should be concerned, that's good enough.

The debates about signal being better than matrix etc are fine to have, but IMO it'd be more productive if we spoke more about how to get granny, the boss, the nephew, etc on signal, matrix etc. Doesn't matter how good any of our privacy apps are, I almost never meet a single person who uses any of them and have to default to fb. Most people over yonder haven't even heard of the apps that aren't telegram or signal.

IMO targeting the discorders(/telegramers) is the lowest hanging fruit. Discord/tg is already bridge compatible with matrix, if you can use LibreOffice, you can set up the t2bot discord-matrix bridge.

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[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

One thing I believe would at least help a little to increase adoption of alternative platforms would be to (and I know this is kind of problematic) learn a thing or two from the Windows 11 approach with the Teams integration.

The two biggest DEs for desktop Linux each have their own Matrix client (NeoChat for KDE and Fractal for GNOME), and I think it'd be a nice idea if they shipped them by default with the system and added some optional integration with the system. That said, I haven't used KDE in a while to be sure if they already do so tho, so my focus would be on GNOME. For instance, in the "online accounts" section there could be a Matrix login option that automatically logs your account in whenever you install another Matrix client, for example. Other nice to have would be to be able to have Fractal have its own native "appindicator" for users to be able to have it running in the background in a more seamless way (since GNOME doesn't support those out of the box).

XMPP would also be an ok option, but the focus here is on the UX/UI more than the privacy/usability of the protocol itself, and in both of these aspects the Matrix clients are way more polished than any XMPP alternative.

But yeah, any platform out of those is fine.

[–] tmpod 1 points 3 years ago

You bring up a nice point. It would be indeed really neat to have the DEs integrate better with Matrix and other platforms.