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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[Announcement] gofoss.net, a guide to privacy, data ownership & sustainable tech (gofoss.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey Lemmy!

We've released gofoss.net, a beginner's guide to free and open source software, privacy and sustainable tech.

The site is available in English, French and German. We hope that it can help some of you to:

safely browse the Internet
encrypt your conversations
protect your data
switch to Linux
free your phone from Google & Apple
join the Fediverse & use alternative cloud providers
self-host your stuff

The source code is available on GitLab. Happy to chat, let us know what you think!

For more information, please come find us at gofoss.net :)

PS: We are 100% non-profit: no ads, no tracking, no sponsored or paywalled content.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

It nice that they specifically mention why XMPP isn't included, but they could also have included a specific client (like they basically do with Matrix) and evaluate that. Conversations for example does do e2ee by default when possible.

A client and server combination like Snikket or Movim could have also been evaluated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You're right. We've pondered this for quite some time, and if you check older commits you'll even see that we included Conversations at some point. We really like XMPP (and are also a bit nostalgic). In the end, we however decided to favour messengers which provide encryption out of the box, irrespective which client is used, and give XMPP an "honorable mention". If there is enough interest, or if people contribute, we can still cover the topic in future releases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I think evaluating Snikket could be a good option in the future as it really is a complete package similar to Matrix. It also has e2ee enabled by default when you are communicating between Snikket users.

Movim also has e2ee now and is a complete package with its PWA capable web-client, but OMEMO isn't enabled by default for now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thx for your feedback! Added GitLab Issue #106 and will look into Snikket when possible