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Is anyone here aware of some alternatives to mentioned instant messaging applications ? Alot of people keep mentioning Signal , however since it is US based I am not going to entertain it as a possibility.

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[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They had no choice due to a warrant. They did provide login information to the court and sat on it for a year before telling everyone.

You mean IP address? That's literally all they had. This is no breach. Your IP is public information when you use the internet. What are you saying exactly?

Did you know that with Matrix based clients you can run your own server and instance for just you and your buddies? And the cops could confiscate your server at your house but can’t get anything, period, due to it being encrypted and yours.

The same goes for Signal. They don't have any of your data and less metadata than Matrix. If the cops raid my Matrix instance they get profile information and social trees of all my users. They don't get that when raiding the Signal servers because of Sealed Sender and other precautions that Matrix doesn't implement. **It does not matter that Signal is centralized. **It changes nothing.

Making a service decentralized does not change anything about security. In fact, because of the constraints of federation, it's even less secure and private in some ways that cannot be avoided.

Also, I'm not pushing Signal. I'm responding to the misinformation being shared here.

[–] fieryhamster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, ignoring as you literally defended authoritarianism in another comment.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

False information again. I just pointed out James Hobbes philosophical theories.

There is no need to dig into my profile and take comments out of context. But you defended Hitler in another comment. So there's that.

You choose to not respond to my comments in this thread? I think this proves that you do actually have no idea what you're talking about and you're just here to spread fudd and fake news. Average 5 day old Russian troll account.