Comment on Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel
CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
The fascist noose is tightening the world over thanks to proprietary big tech. We have to escape now while we can to open-source alternatives.
Currently the best self-hostable, private (encrypted) and federated (like lemmy/piefed) alternative is Movim.
It offers 90% of the features of Discord, including group video calls, group texts, and even screensharing with audio (must use a Chromium based browser currently to share the audio). The only feature missing is discord-style rooms, which the dev is currently working on to release as fast as possible.
For a more complete guide to swapping proprietary apps for safe open-source ones, I suggest referring to this post: lemmy.cafe/post/18663514
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They will ban open source and privacy technology eventually. Desktop Linux, privacy ROMs, encrypted chat apps, and a bunch of other items not approved by the glorious state.
CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
That would be impossible to enforce practically, and would devastate businesses, their main financial supporters.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rules for thee not for me. These asshats don’t give two shits about anything except power and wealth.
What is more likely, is that they’ll just turn off the internet for the commoners. Like they’re doing in Iran now.