Ik ben met reddit gestopt, maar eigenlijk los van Lemmy. Was eigenlijk wel prima om daar minder tijd te besteden.

In die zin is het ook een beetje een voordeel dat Lemmy kleiner is; eigenlijk kijk ik daar één keer per dag, en dan is het prima. Als ik het onverhoopt nog een keer open, dan ben ik er zo weer weg, omdat ik het al heb gezien.

Oh no worries, I have used XMPP (though admittedly in the far past) and am on Matrix as we speak.

I think you’re right that we are going in circles now, so let’s end it here :) Thanks for the discussion!

Re: “Signal technically cannot know your social graph” (…)

I would go into the specific points, but really none of this invalidates my main point that Signal is a marked step forward, seems to be having some success, and that undermining that success is therefore misguided. Heck, Signal might be a stepping stone to people using whatever decentralised system you prefer! I was around in WhatsApp’s early days, and never adopted it, because the picture was never as rosy as Signal’s. Of course, it did become significantly worse when Facebook acquired it, but that happens to be exactly the thing that can’t easily happen to Signal.

I will say that I agree that nothing is eternal, but that’s no reason to encourage people to stay on WhatsApp (which is what disparaging Signal use will actually achieve).

No, in a decentralized system, (…) you can be your own service provider

My point was that you’ll be communicating with people each of whom chose their own service poviders, and thus you’re also trusting those.

This was a bug

And looks like it’s been fixed :)

Ads are one thing, but this seems excessive and probably unintentional. Looks like someone just filed this bug, which is another sign that it might be an unintentional problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944704

Hier nog wat tips voor als je overstapt, met bijv. een afbeelding die je kan gebruiken voor je Stories om aan te kondigen dat je overstapt.

On-topic: ik ben even ziek geweest (griepje wss), maar gelukkig weer aan de betere hand :)

Signal can update the client to reveal your social graph, sure, but right now, Signal technically cannot know your social graph. And there’s two additional layers that make that more likely, which is incentives: being a non-profit, they have no shareholders that would push them to try to look into them, and their primary selling point being privacy, they also have more to lose by doing so. Neither of those apply to WhatsApp. Oh, and a third one: they’d have been in contempt of court, which specifically requested access to such data, and Signal did not provide it because they were not able to.

(I will also say that, in a decentralised communication system, you are reliant on every party you communicate with, and the tools they use, to not expose such data about you either. It’s not a panacea.)

Again, it my not be as big a step forward as you’d like, but it’s utterly ridiculous to claim that this is not a way forward.

And given that it’s not unlikely that larger steps forward may not be possible at all, or would be reliant on us collectively taking smaller steps forward first, I would definitely reconsider putting active effort into discouraging Signal use. Especially if you’re not putting at least a multitude more effort into discouraging use of the incumbents.

Vroeger deden we dat iig, inderdaad.

any valid criticism against WhatsApp can be identically transposed to Signal

There’s plenty of criticism that only applies to WhatsApp:

• Your social graph is visible to Meta,
• other metadata is unencrypted,
• it’s controlled by a for-profit company,
• and that company already has its fingers in way too much of our communication infrastructure,
• and that company seems to be kowtowing to a (foreign, for some of us) government with ethics in direct conflict with some my own, more than they are legally required to.

I’m not against XMPP, Matrix, or whatever, but let’s not pretend that Signal is not a significant improvement, and one that actually has a shot at success here.

Ja, afhankelijk van de offers die je zelf wil brengen is het iig geïnstalleerd hebben, zodat mensen die er wel om geven je iig via Signal kunnen bereiken, al een prima stap.

Merk je wel ook dat de laatste tijd er wel opeens weer meerdere mensen Signal nemen? (Als je de notificaties daarvoor aan hebt staan: Settings -> Notifications -> Notify when… Contact joins Signal.)

after I translate something in a new language I haven’t before, it still doesn’t appear as downloaded (…) I wonder what the difference between the “partial” language files and the full download is

Possibly something @gregtatum@fosstodon.org could answer, if he has time?

There’s always talk about that (see alternative 2), but that could block packaging core apps as Flatpaks.

Ha OK, I don’t know what ozon is and I don’t think I’ve had to edit .desktop files so far, so I’m probably good. I’m on Silverblue, so I suppose they’re still doing system installs, or are looking at existing packages and following their lead.

Thanks for the clarification!

Wait, if I run flatpak list --system --columns=application, it looks like all my Flatpaks are system Flatpaks. Running flatpak list --user --columns=application shoulds just a couple of platform packages. What am I missing out on? What is this needed for:

like forcing crappy electron apps to use wayland

(Either way, thanks for writing up a detailed guide!)

I think you might be looking for tab groups? Which, incidentally, are also coming.

Keep in mind that having an extensively customised setup makes you more fingerprintable - just the fact that some things are not visible to a website makes you unique. Generally, most of the defaults will be best for everybody - especially when it comes to options that are not exposed in the UI (i.e. through about:config).

What could be interesting for you is just running uBlock Origin and have it block all JavaScript by default. That’ll block most of the scripts that potentially do tracking (and that Firefox doesn’t block natively, e.g. because they also provide functionality), and you can relatively easily enable them on a per-site and per-script basis.

Yeah I’m not against the CEO earning similar amounts to those of organisations doing similar things and bringing in similar amounts of money… But those CEOs, too, are compensated disproportionately.

Presumably it’s easier to lobby for something that’s already legally enforced elsewhere. And sometimes lobbying is just unsuccessful.

With a reasonable alternative available, removing the additional fingerprinting vector seems like the best idea to avoid tracking. The few good actors can look at the Global Privacy Control instead, so there’s literally no downside here.