@Distante yes, and in the context of the discussion when the US gov declares you as an enemy signal might provide security but not the others

@Distante sentences >> words

@kaibojens @leanderlindahl

Don't fall for the lies. Instant messaging doesn't need hyperscalers. Audio and video conferencing doesn't need hyperscalers, they need good network. Signal excusing itself with "we need hyperscalers" is just an excuse for centralizing all the communications. We don't need european hyperscalers because we don't need centralized communications.

Signal can mathematically know who talks to whom, when, who sends images, what groups exist, because those are all direct connections from the app to the server. This means the US government has the possibility to know all of this. Signal is excellent but you have to do your homework and know your threat model: if US authorities are on the "malicious" part of it then Signal isn't a solution

@CathyBikesBook

I'm black but not american and not in the us

@inthehands

Maybe the jiu jitsu move is to not let our sense of "right" be dictated by pro-authoritarism entities (tiktok, the news, congress, judges)

@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus

I use Les Pas on Android to automatically sync, it's smarter than a naive send because it knows what is remote and when I delete a photo it asks me if I want to delete on the phone, on the server of both. It also allows me to do albums by actual folders and not some proprietary thing again, and albums can be shared with nextcloud so others can see and maybe even add photos, etc

@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus

I use hetzner's storage share ( https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ ), 5€ a month for 1 TB not just for storage but a full nextcloud instance that's a steal. I have not just my backup there but also my photos, with the Memories app I have all the things I would expect from Google Photos or whatever