Losing control of online perception has always been there. Microsoft paint, then photoshop and now AI. Not a whole lot u can do without a massive pr team/botfarm.

Luckily most of us aren’t famous enough that online slander affects our real lives. Unless we go full black mirror with the real life social media rating system.

As for local first solutions, that’s going to be hard. Most businesses, where I live, are managed by IT companies who use AWS, Intune and the all of the usual suspects.

As long as there is no foss competition to large scale IT management, then it will be difficult to sway corporate that wants “just works”. Here is small chance to shill Zorin Grid. Looking forward to that release.

On a smaller scale individuals will have a better chance. Even if it’s just convincing your coffeeshop boss to switch to only/libre office.

Completely running self hosted communities in cities etc… that’s would be the end game. I think education and parental upbringing will have to become a major part of that. If every school and household has a linux pc and a nas where it’s the normal way of doing things… That would shift future tech use.

Old school runescape gnome child. Don’t think there is more meaning to it then just that they are dressed as gnomes lol

Proton Pass, I use the full suite so it’s just convenient. It also has a few nice functions like e-mail aliases and secure password share links.

Let the proton haters come👀.

@Ferk has given a more elaborate answer. As for servers shutting down. Haven’t had it happen yet. With any service you always risk servers shutting down or failing, even centralized ones like signal: so that is a bit of a nirvana fallacy.

They are local identifiers, not global ones. Each one exists only for a single pair of users so they don’t function as stable or traceable identities. “Pairwise anonymous addresses”.

https://simplex.chat/#privacy-of-identity-contacts-metadata

Signal for people that partly care about privacy. SimpleX for true privacy enthusiasts

Based privacy enthusiast 🗿

The Signal crowd gets butthurt pretty quick lol. Have been downvoted before for prefering SimpleX over signal and trying to explain that its better in terms of privacy. They really are simps ahhahaha

Why technical users? U just download and use it

People like to forget that signal uses amazon servers lmao, yet they praise it for its privacy🙄

I use it, and its pretty decent. Looks good and works.

Pros: -No user ID needed. -Can self host the server that passes on your messages. -Has the option to use Flux. -Works out of the box.

Cons: -Battery drain is a thing. Either toggle the periodic check, or turn it off and open it yourself to check messages. -Using one account accross multiple devices can be a pain. Since u can’t keep using your phone account at the same time as it is connected to your pc. Can be circumvented by having mutiple accounts in the same group chat; but yea it’s a pain the ass.

Neutral: -Convincing people to use it hahahh. But this is a universal probem vs mainstream messenger apps.

Final verdict: 4/5. Very good if privacy and anonymity is your number 1 priority. It’s less of hassle to set up than some other options, and relatively easy to get people into it. Sent invite, they download the app, make profile and are good to go.

Batterydrain and same use account across multiple devices could and should be better for mainstream adoption. On the other hand if u toggle the periodic checks then I find the drain tolerable. And how many of us are in places that don’t have a wallsocket available to charge your phone :p

Gotta love how devs and engineers are supposed to be on the front lines of innovation and progression. But most of the it’s just moaning and calling the next gen dumb. 15 years ago the current devs would be called dumb for using Frameworks amd how it’s cheating since it’s not self written. Do your part and educate and guide the next gen instead of complaining about tech evolving and being used.

Ppl focusing on the negative. It’s just his subjective list. He doesn’t claim to be an expert. Lemmy autism peaking here. More exposure to foss is good guys

Signal, Telegram, SimpleX.

Spin the wheel ladies and gentlemen!

We lemmings are cool enough to do that. The struggle is convincing everyone else🥲