For the past year, I’ve been immersed in the topic of Privacy. I switched to Linux, flashed my phone to LineageOS, changed all my software to one that respects privacy, switched my family and most* friends to Signal, started hating megacorporations and pretty much every government in the world, asked a lot of questions on tiddeR and here. Everything makes sense to me now. I’m a privacy guru🥹. How to move on? What’s the next step? 😁

P.S. if you’re just at the beginning of your journey, I don’t think you’ll find a better resource than PrivacyGuides. Highly recommend it!

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      Yeah I love how “switching friends and family to Signal” is just a thing OP did, almost reads like satire

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        A lot of people have a lot more problems with it than I do. I guess I’m lucky. And I’m very happy about that. I like Signal, the way it works, looks, etc. People like it too, by the way. Especially the sound quality when talking. Compared to Telegram, it’s heaven and earth.

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        It used to be way easier to get people to switch before they eliminated SMS. No idea why they thought getting rid if their key differentiating feature was a good idea.

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      SMS support was a big part of that. I could install Signal on my 70 year old mom’s phone and say “here, this is where you message people”. Sure she had a hard time distinguishing when a conversation was private, maybe. But that was irrelevant the people who used signal on the other hand knew. That move was truly awful. And now six months later here we are still without non phone number accounts. 😡

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        1 year ago

        Number privacy is somewhere around. It can be already enabled through flag when building app so maybe we will see it in start of 2024 🤷‍♂️

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          I’ll believe it when it see it. Meanwhile they’ve made it way harder to get absolute non tech old people to use the app for doubious reasons.

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      I just told everyone from this list that I would only correspond with them on Signal from now on. And I explained why, of course. Everyone understood and downloaded. At first they wrote in Telegram by habit, but then they got used to it. We have good relations with our parents, so there were no problems.