If we’re talking about the encryption - yeah, people have done so. If we’re talking about the whole service - from what I understand, it is not practical to selfhost. And even if it was, you cannot communicate with people using other servers…

I guess it refers to things like GoodbyeDPI. A lot of people use it to watch Youtube after it got “slowed” rather than using a VPN.

Edit: also realized that meant obfuscation protocols like VLESS because VPN protocols are stupid easy to block.

While it would be an improvement, it seems to me that going to another platform would be repeating the same mistake. Protocols are more sustainable longterm solution.

I normally don’t like AI, but a podcast reminded me of an important use of such a model - explaining images to blind people.

I personally have no notifications (aside from SMS, calls and calendar). Not like I would be checking the phone when I suddenly hear a notification anyway, only when already deciding to check it.

Simplex apparently does a similar thing in terms of draining battery for its notifications, I just didn’t allow it to run in the background in the settings. Maybe this could work for Whatsapp if you’re willing to ditch notifications?

I do remember a story a while ago about such French people… But those were previously involved in protests or planning thereof, in which case scrutiny is very expected regardless of what tools they’d use.

I use TOTP in KeepassXC (or KeepassDX on mobile) because it’s fully local and available for desktop.

Yeah, I transfer money not so regularly so I get why it wouldn’t work for everyone. But why not use the website?

I personally use ATMs to send money. And if I were willing to resolve cert troubles (long story), I would’ve used the bank’s website rather than the app.

I was talking about Matrix - specifically the fact that it stores every message and piece of media on every participating server, unlike XMPP. Indeed not had such a problem on XMPP.

While storage is my main concern (my VPS is very limited in this regard), there is also the fact that you can very well end up with nasty materials stored on your server without a convenient way to delete it. Even if you don’t let strangers have accounts on your server.

Monero-paid VPSes cost more, and given this fact, my €5 VPS (with a few other services already running there) would apparently not be enough for Synapse… But an XMPP server runs perfectly.

His point was the main Matrix.org server being way too prominent. In every given groupchat, chances are somebody is on this particular server. It is also the default for many clients.

The point was not in the e2e aspect though, but rather in the metadata since everything goes through the same place.

I know about Matrix, a Matrix server is just more demanding to host.

Can you host a similar bridge to XMPP?

At least the listings I have seen explicitly listed the origin country. Mine is Japanese, and it cost less than an American counterpart, for example.

Here they aren’t officially available yet there are still plenty of resellers - I guess you can find some in your area. I was really scared that the bootloader wouldn’t unlock due to the origin country’s carrier shenanigans, but it went through just fine (still checked every bit of info I could before buying).

I am still very salty about it. But I considered that using a dongle is a fair enough sacrifice for actually trusting your phone.

I guess it’s a) unfamiliarity, b) inconvenience for what they don’t see as much of an upside and c) crypto as a whole being frustratingly seen as a scam, largely because of projects like the one in the post.