Lol, you sound like an incel

I wish their Android version didn’t require Google Play Services. Real bummer.

Regardless, the app is proprietary. You shouldn’t trust it.

Device permissions? That’s not the issue. I think people just lack software knowledge and should learn the difference between proprietary software and Libre software.

If people understood how to check the software license and determine if it’s a free software license, that would cover almost everything they need to do to help us stop having this problem with picking the wrong software.

Well, just uploaded a photo of someone else now it says this…

No. Avoid this by switching to a free operating system such as Debian. Windows is proprietary, there is no hope for privacy there.

It’s proprietary, how could you possibly trust it?

Sounds like a lack of security rather than a lack of privacy.

I remember there being a case about Ubuntu spying on users via the integrated Amazon search feature years ago. They include non-free software by default, such as the Snap store, and Ubuntu is also owned by Canonical.

I’d recommend switching to Debian. It’s community-based and entirely free and open source (except for non-free firmware packages, but those are not much to worry about, and you can easily remove them if you like). A new major release of Debian came out recently with many upgrades. You should check it out!

Can port-forwarding be useful for self-hosting? I haven’t tried using it wih Proton before.

Reject cell phones. Use Libreboot desktops/laptops and a FOSS OS.

The source code for it isn’t available. I like the idea of it though.

Hasn’t been updated in 6 years. Is there a fork of it thats still maintained?

I loved Jitsi too, though, the call quality was a bit low quality when I used it previously (browser version I believe). The only problem with Jitsi, is how do you set up a server?

For example, Professer Messer has a Discord server, but a lot of people use the chat rooms for conversations, and there a lot of other study sessions taking place in different voice channels. I really wonder what the other alternative to Discord is. Mumble won’t do since I don’t think it has the ability to screen share.

How do you set up XMPP with OMEMO as anonymously as possible? My friend and I would love to video call each other, currently we’re using SimpleX for this, but it’s very buggy. We use Molly for calling and SimpleX for texting, both of us are switching to using Libreboot laptops with QubesOS to communicate :)

I love teaching my friend privacy. He’s really gotten into it, I’ve done a good job making him just as paranoid as I am!