Privacy

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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.

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Friends and family won't switch to private messaging apps or phones. Is there a point in avoiding Google Messages app? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by yourFanatic@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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They all have iPhones and Google Android. Since all my calls and text messages are monitored on their phones, am I causing any additional harm to myself by using Google Messages on GrapheneOS? That way I could at least use RCS messaging.

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[–] palitu@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Beeper can bridge those into a matrix chat. Then at least you can chat with people who or on a privacy related one as well as the heathens in Facebook messenger

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you host a similar bridge to XMPP?

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

A bridge is in XMPP speak called a transport if you want to improve your search for one.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure about xmpp, but definitely matrix

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

I know about Matrix, a Matrix server is just more demanding to host.