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• deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  WireMin is a scam, unable to deliver on their promises. I already explained this on one of the previous ads that was posted: lemmy.deadca.de/comment/599111

  Please use FOSS decentralized software, such as Matrix.

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  • woshang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unable to deliver on their promises? How so?

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    • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      (I can’t believe I’m replying to a spam account) In case you can’t read my linked comment:

      It’s not open source. There’s no way to actually verify any of their claims.

      As others pointed out: “Contact Us” with gmail, facebook, twitter, or instagram. Any company (or individual) remotely advocating for privacy would be using (semi-)private services, even when advertising their own alternative.

      The terms of service / privacy policy includes:

      WireMin establishes a self-organizing network only by a number of active instances of WireMin apps. WireMin, as a protocol, utilizes advanced security and time-tested cryptography to provide a private messaging tool and social network. All of those are achieved in a democratized network without relying on a cloud service or back-end server.

      No single bit of user data will be collected. WireMin is not even capable of doing that.

      No user information will be provided to us, not a single bit.

      however, it also contains

      WireMin collects minimum device information

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      Occasionally for WireMin App on mobile devices, an additional device notification token (e.g. iOS devices) may be collected, to enable push notifications. Again, that information is collected without exposing user identity or the device’s IP which eliminates the possibility of user tracking.

      It is impossible to not receive user information, and impossible to receive such notification token without knowing the device IP. User/device info gets provided to the app developers when someone downloads their app from the app store or play store. To actually use the push notification token, it requires server infrastructure. A push notification token is useless without having a centralized server to use it. Not having any servers means you can’t use the token, and having the token spread across different servers to remain decentralized would be dangerous, as the token could be used to fake notifications from the app.

      Added to that, the blatant spam and advertising that’s happening in posts like these or comments under other posts related to chat applications. Your post is part quoted “update log” and part advertisement written as if it’s a review.

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• Squeak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why use this when Mastodon and Signal already exist?

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is a great benefit to using decentralized services. They cannot be taken down by any entity, and control over data is in the hands of server hosts, rather than one company. Once running and popular enough, a decentralized service will continue to exist. With so much infrastructure owned by so many different people, no single person can “decide” to take it down.

    That said, WireMin is still a scam, please read my other comment for more info. Use whichever chat application works best for you.

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    • Lantern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’ve basically ignored the question, and instead explained why decentralized services can’t be taken down.

      The answer is that there is no good reason to use this above Mastodon, as Mastodon is free and open source, is not a scam, alongside having a larger community. Signal is a different type of application entirely, so comparing the two doesn’t really make sense.

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• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This thing is scam. Period.

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• hal_5700X@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Me right now.

  Okay for real. This looks like a good way to farm for people’s info.

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• Decentralizr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reminds me on simplex they have a source code published tho

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  • woshang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah. Source code is needed, hard line.

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