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Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months ago

Turkey sees huge VPN usage spike amid reports of social media crackdown

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Turkey sees huge VPN usage spike amid reports of social media crackdown

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Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months ago
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    ActivityPub isn’t good for everything, especially for privacy. Luckily SimpleX exists.

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      Thanks, never heard of SimpleX, but I will check it out.

      But to make an analogy. Bitcoin wasn’t good for privacy at first. But they added features and new coins like Monero were developed with strong privacy.

      So I expect there will eventually be a private ActivityPub, either “on top of” or “next to” the current one.

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        i mean sure, you can modify the standard enough until it’s somewhat secure, but it doesn’t make any sense to do so.

        You actively don’t want secure communication channels to be interoperable with insecure ones, they should be kept as separate as possible so there’s minimal risk of leaking the important data.

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      +1 for simplex

      https://simplex.chat/

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      How would simplex even help here? Is the a Lemmy alternative built upon simplex? Or a friendica one?

      Anti Commercial-AI license

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        SimpleX can be self hosted

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        not sure how this is confusing, simplex is a chat app with privacy as the #1 priority; OP wanted a private alternative to whatsapp, simplex is that alternative.

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          I missed the thing about the chat app 😅 My bad.

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        As in, activitypub is not suited for chatting apps. A decentralized protocol specifically designed for messaging (matrix,xmpp,simplex) would fit better here.

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          I missed the thing about the chat app 😅 My bad.

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