TutaToday is Digital Independence Day! 🎉 ❤️
The perfect day to share your story of how you got rid of Big Tech!
⚡Let us know in the comments how you #DID it for a chance to win one year of LEGEND for FREE.⚡🔒
Iraqi Linux 🐧 لينكس العراقيWe #DID this through:
★ replacing email service provider to #tutanota
★ changing the OS to #Linux 🐧 , with least prepackaged disros.
★ using @signalapp instead of #WhatsApp.
★ using Telegram & @Mastodon 
for publication of our content
Currently, we are looking forward for finding ways to support our efforts locally in Iraq to popularize #FOSS for everyone (no matter how much tech experience has)
Avoca@IRQL @Tutanota @signalapp
@Mastodon
Sounds like a wise move.
But, I'm surprised you would choose a messaging app that is used by the US Dept of War, recommended for use by the US Dept of Cyber Security and controlled by a single operator who provides intelligence services to the CIA, FBI and NSC and is a financial supporter of Donald Trump, such as Signal.
Can I suggest you consider using Delta Chat instead.
Its very user friendly, encrypted, de-centralised, completely anonymous and you can even manage your own server with it.
I think its a much, much better messaging solution than Signal.
@avoca @Tutanota @signalapp @Mastodon
Definitely, we are moving towards Session & DeltaChat.
And of course, we value wisdom & experience in our project.
Thank you for your note 🙏
@IRQL @Tutanota @signalapp @Mastodon
Great choices.
I use Delta Chat and Session for different needs. Both brilliant at what they do.
As a follow-up to my previous, here is a list of locations you can 'link-in' with that might be safer than a centralised US service, as Signal is.
witt 💾@avoca @IRQL @Tutanota @signalapp @Mastodon
Avoca, do you have a resource where you share more about the different use cases for Delta and Session?
I'm always looking to learn where the strengths and weaknesses of each tool are and how I can better utilize them.
Thanks!
Avoca, do you have a resource where you share more about the different use cases for Delta and Session?
I'm always looking to learn where the strengths and weaknesses of each tool are and how I can better utilize them.
Thanks!
@witt @IRQL @Tutanota @signalapp @Mastodon
No. I'm just a 'punter' like most folk on here.
But an important use case for Delta Chat is it can be installed as a Persistent application on TAILS OS and functions perfectly over the TOR network.
This is NOT possible with phone network based services nor those who run their own networks, such as Session.
This is because DC is effectively just an email client and uses the Data part of the Internet 'spectrum' rather than the Telephone part(in really, really simple terms).
Delta Chat haven't "reinvented the wheel", they've just modified its performance characteristics.
Try as they may, its quite difficult for authorities to shutdown the global email system without shooting themselves in the foot. It makes DC very resilient.
To my knowledge this is the only, truly user friendly, secure messaging app that can be used over TOR.
(Having said that, I am aware of others, such as XMPP, etc. that can be used, but DC is by far the easiest and most flexible of those I am aware of.)
And, Session is improving all the time. Any bad press it gets for the use of a cryptocurrency to fund it just shows a lack of education on behalf of the writer. I'm happy to expand on this point if required.
However, Session has two problems atm, one is a lack of a post-transmission Edit function and the other is extremely low uptake, IMHO.
But as a secure messaging service, its First Rate, for my needs.