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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

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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The official chat room for a privacy community is discord? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is this a joke?

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holy shit you right. Its convenience I guess for newbies. But yeah thats really bad for privacy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, you can banish it to a browser, a dedicated even if you really wanted to. Matrix is not exactly the most beginner friendly thing tbh

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

matrix through Element is as user-friendly as discord 🤷

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried Matrix but I wouldn't call Discord user friendly either 🤪

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, it's not.

Even for tech savy people the security settings (i.e. cross-signing and backups) are confusing and Element points you straight towards them, without sufficient explanations.

Element is (impressively enough) also much more buggy than Discord.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Newbies don't need that when starting, and at least they will have a solid ground to work with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I find it actually pretty straightforward for a non-technical person. The default settings all work fine. The more complicated stuff is relatively buried.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Matrix I feel is one of the better os for newbies You just send them towards element.io. Or at least that's what I did with my friend, when I wanted them to switch