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I think the day is coming where services like #Nostr, ProtonMail, and Signal will be illegal. If encryption becomes illegal will you still try to use it? Will you close your accounts? What will society be like with almost zero privacy?
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It is. Hopefull not soon, but that's the trend.

People (myself included) though Signal was awesome until we realized that they don't care about removing PII (phone numbers), decentralization, or pretty much anything their users have been asking for.

Now it's #nostr, #Matrix, #pgpmail, #Tor, and other decentralized solutions for me.

I haven't gone as far to close my account with #SignalApp, but my usage has steadily been dropping since they dropped SMS support. Plus now my SMS messages are no longer encrypted at rest (beyond the standard FDE).

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516add19... 2y ago

I need to learn pgpmail. I tried Matrix but there was no way to sign up without email it seemed. I like some of these decentralized options but not if they need kyc email.

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PGP can be a real rabbithole if you get into the gory details of what subkeys are, and what exponent you should use and so forth.

Fortunately Thunderbird has PGP support built now ehich makes practical usage very easy after the initial setup. If you are public enemy #1, then you'll want to go down the rabbithole and learn about all the ins and outs of PGP. Honestly though, the main risk is that someone you talk to is compromised/a snitch/turncoat/enemy of some sort.

As for Matrix, some Matrix servers require an email to register, some ofvthose also won't allow disposable email addresses (mailinator, sharklasers, etc.). This is because of spammers. I found a small community of hackers who run and instance and just asked them to create an account for me. If you are on Mastodon check out the "tildeverse". Those folks are likely to help you out. Just don't be an asshole and ruin it for everyone.

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516add19... 2y ago

Some good advice. Thanks. Funny enough, Mastodon was another I wasnt able to create an account without an email. I should try temp email.

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516add19... 2y ago

What is tildeverse?

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There's a write up of what it is at https://tildeverse.org/