froxJan 29, 2025
It seems a lot of people are switching to #signal following the US elections.
I'd like to softly point out this article from the homebrew server club:
Have you considered the alternative? https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternative.html
Signal is a centralised service where decision contrary to the user's interest can be made unilaterally.
#xmpp is a federated communication system, where this is more complicated. Snikket has a nice overview https://snikket.org/
Have you considered the alternative?

homebrewserver.club
Show threadÖlbaumJan 29, 2025
@frox Whatever people do, it’s never gonna be enough for nerds, is it? They’re always going to judge “normies” because they don’t host their whole digital life at home on servers they built with their own hands with open source hardware and open source software, power it with solar panels on their balcony and access the internet not via an eeevil ISP but through meshstatic.
Show threadIdeal CH

@oscherler @frox

I see no moral judgements in this and even less references to solar panels.

Only someone with valuable expertise, sharing it openly, on a subject crucial for a viable democracy.

Ideally every citizen would understand enough to decide if we should fund something like #secushare — at last.

https://secushare.org/

(if not necessarily all technical details)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2024-03/msg00024.html

#socialNetworks #HelloQuitteX #HelloQuitX #XMPP #decentralized

SECUSHARE

Jan 29, 2025 at 11:29amWeb