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Show them the issues, such as Snowden revelations and the applications for it and how it can be used against them

What is an SDR?

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Arch is good for customization. But I value my time more and so rather have something that works to keep it simple and hence use Debian

Yeah I agree, its easier said than done. Web crawling requires a lot of resources

To be fair it had advantages and disadvantages. The first key thing I notice about Google is that its searches for positives alot of the time. So its easy to end up in rabbit holes of disinformation

I agree the only thing with Signal is it needs a phone number, but the protocol that is solid. Its more practical to have people switch to signal from whatsapp in my opinion

I notice that the search results on Youtube are changed based on what you have watched and searched for already. So it gives people a false sense of a 'free search'. Makes people question the if Google do the same with their search engine.... Most likely....

I do enjoy the fact that Lemmy is federated as I feel like that is the solution long term, rather than placing hands in the power of a few people with other things like Reddit. Decentralization for the win! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Lets get everyone using Signal, that isn't actually backdoored by the NSA!

this is a step in the correct direction

Tech Companies have more power than Governments, its about time something be done about that by both the public (By no longer choosing to use their services) and the Government to help to lessen their power