Safety reminders for these times:
- Direct messages on Fedi are not encrypted.
- If your instance is hosted in the US, the admin has to comply with US law.
- Discord text chat is not encrypted. Video is.
- Encrypted group chats are only as secure as the people with access and their security practices.
If you're interested in protecting the contents of your conversations or work, follow the #privacy tag. People posts some really interesting things on there.
Tools Starter pack:
- Chat: Signal. SMS is insecure, but also a bit harder to scrape.
- Video: Jitsi
- Email: Tuta or Startmail or Mailbox.org. (Proton CEO openly supports fascism)
- Browser: Librewolf is what a lot of people recommend. Firefox if you want something more commercial and don't care about their move towards AI advertising.
- Search: Duck Duck Go is probably fine.
- Clear your cookies and say no to their 783 partners who process your data.
Your privacy protects your friends too. Do it for all of us.
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