We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
ID: AP Seattle @apseattle posted: "BREAKING: Greyhound says it will stop letting Border Patrol agents conduct routine immigration checks on its buses."
corpse @thefurrow replied: "Witnesses said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus"
For Matrix "good security practices," I assume both parties of the conversation need to follow them? I've already got a VPN, but I don't think all of the people I want to communicate with have one.
Matrix is a federated system, kinda like Lemmy. If you just use an existing instance that you trust, it's basically just another e2ee messenger. But many people host their own, and for that you need to a) have access to a server or VPS and b) have that server secured, i.e. configure firewalls, certificates, etc. It's not super hard, but takes some technical knowledge. Your non-technical friends can just use your instance, tho.
The benefit is that you control your data, not some external provider. From a pure security standpoint, however, there's not a lot of benefit over, say, Signal.
Of course, that's the infrastructure aspect of security. Other things, like having strong and varied passwords, no biometric logins (or only with 2fa), not sharing personal information about yourself or friends online, those obviously everyone needs to follow.