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mjr@infosec.pub 22 hours agoThere are hundreds of truly-private alternatives, many with no company involved at all.
Such as…? I bet some ISPs or hardware maker companies are involved at some point.
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 hours ago
Cwtch. XMPP. Matrix. SimpleX. Quiet. Delta Chat. Arcane Chat. Revolt. Briar. Meshtastic. etc. etc. etc.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Aren’t most of those requiring dedicated setup? How does that work without a pre-existing communication channel such as email to prep for them? You walk to every party you need to integrate?
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 hours ago
Sorry, I don’t understand the words you’re using. Some of them are peer to peer. Some of them use servers which can be hosted by individuals. Some of them work locally over Bluetooth or WiFi.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Damn. They didn’t seem so wild especially compared to the flow of yours. All mediums / techs you listed are complex technologies that take efforts to setup. Compared to the ubiquitousness of email. How do you propose to make that as available to the baseline human being?
mjr@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Most of those still rely on some company to host a server, except Briar, and in practice most Briar users are still relying on companies to access Tor to connect.
They are more robust, not perfect.
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 hours ago
None of them require a company to host a server. That was my entire point.
mjr@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Explain how you’d use Delta Chat without a server, please? I may have misunderstood its need for a mailserver when I tried it.