Lots of good ideas in here. A lot of this could be done with a lemmy community (possibly with mod-post only turned on), appointing reporters / writers as moderators, posting peertube links for videos, using pinned threads for bigger stories, etc.
The above poster is wrong. You can absolutely trust lemmy, because its open source and self hostable. You can build the project from source (like a cooking recipe), and run it yourself.
I can’t really trust anyone’s security philosophy when they market their service as “secure”, but then have it built on required phone numbers (linkable to your real identity), and a single centralized US-based server subject to national security letters.
Anyone who came up with this idea of security should be laughed out of the room.
I’m convinced signal’s entire support is similar to apple’s : they make vague untestable claims about security, whilst having a shiny and functional app.
There are so many self-hostable alternatives that have signal beat on both those, that make any reason for using it moot.
Signal has your phone number and everyone else’s who signed up. That is more than just client information, and it’s possible to build entire social networking graphs with it alone.
you can never validate what code a server is running
Most halfway-decent messaging services (unlike signal) are self-hostable. So yes with actual open source software, that’s very possible.
we can guarantee is that it can’t be tied back to your message history,
Prove it. And not from some just trust me bro statement from signal.
Give me ssh access to their server so I can verify that works like it should.
Can’t? Then it’s just trust me bro
Not effectively, since it’s centralized in the US and you have no idea what code the server is running.
Signal does claim to have their server code open, but they went a whole year one time without updating it, until they received some backlash for it.
Which is true of open source unless you read the code and can verify nothing nefarious exists
Not at all. Not everyone needs to audit open source, only a few interested experts do. Most importantly, auditing is possible because its out in the open.
The just trust me model of signal means its impossible to audit, unless they give us their centralized database and server code.
It’s really the opposite, considering its a centralized server hosted in the USA. Signal’s “Trust me bro” is not an adequate security model.
There are plenty of chat services that aren’t centralized and hosted in the USA.
There’s no such social graph to speak of. Signal does not know who is speaking to whom.
You have no source for that other than Signal’s “just trust us” claims.
Looks like they’re having some DNS issues atm.
I use dreaming spanish too! And vidioma.com for mandarin.
For anyone interested, here’s a detailed explanation from the ppl at dreaming spanish on why it works.
IMO Its fine to sync them with syncthing, as that’s end to end encrypted.
Lemmy lets you sign up and use it without a lot of the linked identifiers that reddit requires, that can be tied to your real identity (so they can serve you targeted ads). These include things like IP addresses, your email address, browser or device fingerprint, phone number, etc.
The other privacy concern I can think of, is middle-men capturing passwords and text input, and IP addresses. As long as your server isn’t using cloudflare (unfortunately many lemmy servers are), and you aren’t using a closed-source app or web UI (unfortunately many users are), you’re likely safe.
Of course the other comments are correct that this is a public platform that’s distributed, so we have to assume nefarious agencies are scanning it, so you shouldn’t say anything that could tie your account to your real identity. Its also probably a good idea to create new accounts every so often if you’re the type of person who tends to leak that info.
Oof, such a good album. “All my little words” is one of the best songs ever written.
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I’m fully convinced its just like apple’s support: they make some vagueish unprovable claims about privacy, and have a functional and shiny app. That’s enough for people to overlook all the privacy issues, and build a cult-like fanbase.
Like if anyone walked into a privacy conference and said, “Hey everyone, I’m going to make a private messaging service. I need everyone’s phone number!”, they’d get laughed out of the room. But because their app looks nice, then people need to develop the cult-like following whenever it gets attacked, because its touching on an unresolved cognitive dissonance of this being a terrible idea.