Privacy
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
- Be nice :)
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No matter what any frothing-at-the-mouth, armchair 'security expert' tells you, it all boils down to your own personal threat assessment. If you are a journalist who's about to blow the lid off a grand governmental plot, you're going to need a lot more security than a regular schmuck who's texting back and forth with his girlfriend about where they're going to go for dinner Friday night. Don't get me wrong - privacy IS very important, but FFS people.....context is everything. Telegram is a great and private messaging app for most regular cases. The people screaming otherwise are usually just trying to redirect people over to their own pet project.
Especially the type of people who then praise the Fediverse as some kind of privacy alternative as if their data isn't hosted by some kid below their parents' kitchen sink.
Lol , all those data are public anyway.
Not all (e.g. personal conversations)
Telegram non-encrypted conversations are nowadays comparable to Skype. Now, reread the above, substituting "Telegram" with "Skype" and you'll see the problem. If somebody calls you, all phones with your telegram account will keep ringing after you take the call. This is why you should move to signal, it is safer and less annoying for now.
There are definitely pros and cons and I agree with many comments here that it's about threat models and personal preference while making informed choices and promoting the importance of privacy. On a related note, the most alarming thing for me about Telegram is probably the fact that almost every Linux channel on there is full of fascists (and I'm talking literal neo-Nazis with Nazi stuff in their profile photos)! Grotesque and utterly bizarre!
We have Wolfballs here on Lemmy too so we can't exactly complain
I did not see them here yet (although I am only really visiting this instance), but maybe I am not seeing that well. :P
Compare this to Signal, where you saw everyone's phone number and it was buggy as hell
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