Too heavy and bloated, and too centralized in its design philosophy, not to mention big capital flowing through Matrix from Israel and the issues with metadata making it a privacy disaster.

Here's a blog that agrees with me so I don't seem lazy: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/

I get your blogger's concern over OMEMO versions being out of whack and their encryption choices being all over the place, but other than it being somewhat of a mess, I don't see how it devalues the service as much as he thinks. (a bit melodramatic imo) I've yet to meet someome whos client can't decode my messages or mine theirs and I've never heard of any successful hack, but maybe maybe.

you know this means they get the keys, right?

Patrick Breyer with the pirate party is my go to example of why small parties and extraparliamentary opposition is important. 99% of the people don't even know him and he's just doing such an sucessful job of protecting them anyway.

Your OS doesn't, put the messaging apps that your friends/family/coworkers use do.

And no, you can't convince them to switch messager, I tried.

Is the EU not subject to GDPR?

And no, you can’t convince them to switch messager, I tried.

Have you used the gambling addiction and honeypot comparisons?

Or opium smoking in China one?

If somebody makes a functioning NOSTR client similar to Telegram in experience - maybe that will be convenient enough.

Europe should prepare for a major conflict with Russia by 2027, Polish PM Tusk warns - feddit.org

Archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20250727093234/https://fakti.bg/en/world/988957-tusk-europe-and-poland-should-prepare-for-a-major-conflict-with-russia-by-2027] […] The Polish Prime Minister referred to a similar assessment by the head of the US European Command (USEUCOM) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Alexis Grinkiewicz, with whom he had spoken shortly before. According to this assessment, by 2027 Russia and China could become strong enough to seek a coordinated confrontation with NATO and the United States. Given the ongoing war in Ukraine, a number of possible scenarios are circulating among Western military experts about when other European countries could also face aggression. Forecasts indicate that this could happen as early as 2027. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius pointed to 2029. […]

(feddit.org)

War is likely.

Thank you for helping us stop chat control! We from the Swedish Pirate Party are strongly against this!

Well we in the Swedish Pirate Party are strongly against this! We have been fighting since the beginning against Chat Control! Feel free to DM me and I can even try to find a Pirateparty near you or atleast a party who are aligned similarly!

We couldn't have said it better!

And what do you think that means the moment your OS connects to, oh I don't know, the rest of the fucking planet?

I'm starting to edit idcaboutprivacy more and more often (and that's not a good thing)

What activists? I need their names, for personal research reasons.

Dude, I decided to make a personal note with lots of similar links regarding privacy, so that I can provide the source when I discuss these matters with people. But yours in much more thorough - and public. Thanks for saving me a ton of work!

I like the comapirson i heared at
Anne Roths(https://systemli.social/@anneroth) talk(German):

You would never say: I don't need free speech because I have nothing to say. Everyone profits from data privacy and free speech and some people are depending on their life on it.

I don't know who reintroduced it, but here the original one https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2022%3A209%3AFIN&qid=1652451192472

Contacting politicians directly is good, but joining orgs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Privacy International multiplies your impact since they have lawyers and can actualy challenge these laws in court.

I, at least, managed to get most of my family to switch. I told them it was the only way they'd get pictures and updates of my son. The one small victory I'm satisfied with.

should check existing options first:

• Briar
• Simplex
• Tox
• Matrix and elements as frontend
• xmpp

How the fuck can you be pro censorship/pro big brother? What kind of idiot do you have to be? Do they just get bags of money to spout out this bullshit?

Does having a lot of money exempt you from this shit? I don't get it. I can understand detestable people being pro things that make the poor poor and the rich rich. But this affect everyone both poor and rich. The only one benefiting from this are fascist dictators.