Jean-luc Peak-hard

I need this on a shirt

what instances are blocked? anyone able to point me where I can see this?

Jonathan Ross. Don’t let the world forget that Jonathan Ross murdered an innocent woman.

I think fragmentation is great. Shows there’s varied interest in the space and allows them to evolve. Let the best one stand the test of time!

A quick overview of the difference in the tech stacks:

if they want to censor and monitor the internet, its time to start building on a new one that’s private and encrypted by default: https://reticulum.network/

I’m a IT-Specialist for application development

Appeal to authority.

Session is indeed a good competitor

Unfounded claim.

thought they had some flaws

Flaws they introduced by removing PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) and Cryptographic Deniability, just to name two big ones, which they got free from Signal. For anyone not aware, they removed these security features because it made development more difficult for them, not because it was in the interest of their users.

upcoming V2 protocol would’ve fixed

Has yet to be seen, although if they bring back PFS, they will have at least reached Signal’s level of privacy/security from over a decade ago

Edit:
Additional, more technical details on why you shouldn’t use Sessions: https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/

Magnet link if anyone wants to download via Torrent:

Magnet Link

Their old version with the ‘random’ option is the best way to find random, small, niche sites.

https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom

so many better Google alternatives out there:

• https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
• https://ecosia.org/
• https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
• https://www.qwant.com/
• https://www.startpage.com/

this needs to be how this is communicated: “Trump starts war to hide child rape”

Any we client including Matrix webclient is incredibly vulnerable to the server just injecting JS

That doesn’t preclude fediverse clients from enabling E2EE. A web-client isn’t a requirement.

Like there is no point of E2E encryption in Twitter, Musk can read your messages if you open them on any device he can execute arbitrary code on.

Agreed, nobody should trust twitter, but I would trust most mastodon clients to send encrypted messages, if/when implemented correctly. Does it guarantee that messages will never be read? No, but it does an extra layer that wasn’t there before.

that argument doesn’t hold. you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good-and if you truly believe that, then you wouldn’t be recommending Matrix which has web clients, see https://app.element.io/

why? because it would be cool if only intended recipients are able to view sent messages.

Check out CryptPad.org, it’s:

• Open Source; so it can’t be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
• Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people’s instances.
• Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
• Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you’re using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
• End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can’t see any of your data.

Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.

the problem the guy above is trying to call out is that traditional social media (read: algorithms dictated by the ruling class) spread misinformation and control the narrative in ways we never thought possible. voting works, yes, but without addressing the root cause—misinformation—we will end up right back where we are.

conservative parents are dangerous. to society and their own children

this search engine finds smaller unique sites, lots of them happen to be neocities sites. Just refresh the page and see whats out there: https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom

If these features interest you, that’s great! But you’re not the average user. Congrats tho. Librewolf may be perfect for you.

DRM is one. On Windows it doesn’t auto-update by default (maybe that’s changed now?). I recall you have to whitelist some sites to work properly. It’s just not something I can set up for my parents and expect most/all websites to work without intervention.

people (not calling you out specifically) keep suggesting Librewolf like it isn’t driving around a city in a tank. it gets the job done, sure, but most people will not tolerate its faults. Suggest something more in-between like Waterfox at least.

Suggesting Librewolf is like asking people to browse the web via Tor. it works, sure, but the inconvenience will make most people give up on gecko-based browsers and give into Google/chrome via Brave or the million other chrome-in-sheep’s-wool browsers.

Let’s recommend viable alternatives: https://www.waterfox.com/