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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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PSA Use your display name to help move others to privacy respecting replacements. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by autonomoususer@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For example, on WhatsApp, use the whole 25 character limit for profile name. Examples:

Bob Moved To Signal.org

Alice MovedTo Signal.org

CharlieMovedTo Signal.org

Say Signal.org, not Signal, because they won't know it's an app.

Use your about section too. Same on Discord, Steam, Instagram, etc.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago (20 children)

I thought people had been moving OFF signal lately?

Personally, I’m on signal, but never signed up for a Meta property because, well, it was obvious from the start that they had bad privacy controls that depended only on corporate promises.

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

Why are people moving off signal?

[–] Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Most are staying, but there's a growing shift to simplex among privacy/anon focused people

Signal uses closed source and centralized servers to deliver all your messages. Some people don't like their communications being dependant on a corporations computer, and would rather maximize data sovereignty when possible.
phone number requrement is unacceptable to some people

If SimpleX makes bad choices it can be forked and self hosted, whereas we would be locked in with signal and at the compamys whims

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