2FA must be done through the damn app. It’s TOTP (six digit) but locked behind god knows what. I asked for alternatives and they looked me like I was a caveman.

It’s all about risks vs benefits. You can open up your domain for more users, but that also can make you potentially liable for what other users do with your domain from law enforcement if something nasty happened.

When I tested it, VPN do work after sms verification. Tor nodes, however, resulted in all my test accounts being banned.

I’ve found that being consistent with what you choose to share is the most difficult thing. Conversations can get personal, and as you get closer to those random nicknames there’s the constant urge to share mundane stuff about your daily lives like weather, holidays, and such that will all add up.

It’s a hostage situation they’re doing like any proprietary social network. You want to encourage people to move away from them, but then you need to interact with those same people in order to do that.

SimpleX having PFS while Session not having it also seals the deal.

Wait until someone screams ‘AI will help’.

Jerboa works fine… except when I have to search for something. Why is ‘search’ not a ‘search post/comments’ function but a ‘search community’ one?

Treating phone numbers in contact list with username was a brilliant idea (for the spread of mobile messengers like Whatsapp) but also a very horrible idea (for user privacy and everything else). I can’t just change a phone number for privacy. My acquaintances will gladly update them with my name, my old and new number, ready for Zucc to scoop them up in a fucking silver plate.

Burner phone to anything that requires communication. Erase metadata of anything that will be shared and uploaded online.

Just my two cents here to mention that it’s necessary to see this as a journey and a mindset, not a single-step or one-size-fits-all panacea.

If she’s annoyed of advertisements creeping up, introduce her to adblockers and slowly make her get used to it. If she has shared concerns after seeing her friends or colleagues receive abusive comments on their social media accounts, comment on the dangers of oversharing one’s private life and its potential consequences and tangible threats, like medical insurance companies abusing the info, and so on.

For some of my acquaintances, uploading to facebook or sending them through whatsapp counts as backing up their pictures.

I suspect something involving law enforcement or legal. Still would love if LW admins updated on this.

Sigh. At least the benefits of federation include being free to move into other instances while LW can pull stuff like this (probably because they get the heat from being the largest instance).

Ah, the 4chan method of engagement, right?

The same used to be said for Internet Explorer in the 90s.

I can be your Guest1234 anytime you want ;)

I’m also against blocking proxies, but we the privacy minded folks are a minority that actually uses vpn or tor for everyday internet browsing. There are lots of bots and malicious actors using our resources to spam large instances, and if I were managing a popular fediverse instance, I too would have been forced to consider blocking vpn/tor, even if I didn’t want it.

Doesn’t make him automatically correct however.

Slow and steady wins the race.