This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Which instant messenger do you use and recommend the most for general use? I read Dessalines essay about why Signal is bad, from these options SimpleX looks best to me. Thoughts?
I use Telegram. The company is based outside the EU/US, so its unlikely that it would give any data to my government.
As far as I know, there’s volunteer “content moderators” on Telegram who have access to a very invasive moderation tool that allows them to read any (non-secret) private chat, private group or even the saved messages simply by username. The software they use was recently leaked, and it’s not really something I use anymore since.
Hey in another comment you mentioned being from Germany, so I think this might be relevant to you
https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/mitteilungen/Ministerium-bestaetigt-erstmals-Telegram-gibt-Nutzerdaten-an-deutsche-Sicherheitsbehoerden,pressemeldungndr23418.html
Of cource Bundesinnenministerium aka the police is not really the most trustworthy source, but I just wanted to mention that in case you and others did not know about that.
What a shame. Luckily the numbers are very small, I hope it doesn’t increase in the future.
Matrix, preferably self-hosted.