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Could you at least tell me any reasons why you wouldn't use Session? Nobody will take you seriously if you have no arguments to back up your statement.

Try Status instead of Session.

I tried it in the past and I was welcomed with messages from scammers and no moderation in any groups that I saw. I may give it second chance one day though.

Fully FLOSS and their developers are not dicks who prioritize “muh dont want fixed notification” to digital rights.

Session is quite new project, gains much more users then Status and thus generates more issues. If you would be a developer and you would prioritize fixing notifications that work for most users anyway over working on new open group server implementation to mitigate spam then your project wouldn't last long. As a user I would rather see no notifications than get lots of spam that would make the platform unusable.

Signal is centralized and you can't verify what is running on the server so does it really change anything? I think it doesn't, so people should stop panicking and switch to some decentralized messengers like Session instead.

Technically there are still many people using it because Signal is really user-friendly for those switching from WhatsApp.

I'm planning to create some new forums soon so I will remember about Lemmy community for sure.

This is new forum created for Italian speakers. I just didn't find anyone who would be interested in joining it yet. If you are Italian feel free to contact me on Briar and tell your friends about the forum as well.

You don't even have to be a programmer to remember how slow Internet Explorer is.

That's your choice and I'm not going to argue with that. I don't know when you are planning to get a new phone but I personally think that Linux phones will be much better as second phone rather than full Android replacement for a long time.

Thanks for sharing. This is really great guide.

IMO no service is worth loss in privacy and there is always some better alternative, it just may be difficult to find or may lack some features. I think Linux phones would be good for some use cases but won't really replace Android phones. Google Pixel phones are actually good if you degoogle them, they probably have the best security level IIRC.

Installing GrapheneOS and removing Google from your life is really big step in privacy. It may be difficult at the start but there is alternative to most, if not all, software created by Google and other companies that doesn't care about your privacy.

I'm curious if whonix actually provides any value rather than just running tor locally?

It's definitely more resistant to any exploits because Whonix Workstation doesn't know your real IP address.

Like has there ever been a case when because tor was run locally on someones computer over using whonix for tor that they were compromised?

If someone got saved from being identified then you probably will not hear about it anywhere but there were cases where Whonix would save someone from being identified if they only used it. As an example see Buster Hernandez's case (more details here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-predator-buster-hernandez). He was running Tor locally (because he was using Tails) and he got caught.