how do you guys use privacy focused messaging alternatives like Signal or Matrix? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago by bpt11@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I can’t use them because I can’t convince anybody to switch with me. I talk to most people on discord and I’d rather move to using Matrix, but I can’t convince any of my friends or family or anyone I know to use anything else.

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[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

https://lemmy.world/post/21620691
https://lemmy.world/post/20950542
Never say privacy, say (anti-)libre software.
Never tell anyone anything, make them ask you.
Make others really want to talk with you!

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

How is anti-libre any better lol, that’s more obscure

[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

https://lemmy.world/comment/13632838

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

...What?

[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If your way works so well, I'm not stopping you.

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Your comments make no sense. The term anti-libre is relatively unknown and thus less helpful than privacy. Idk what you’re talking about

[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

How's that working out for you?

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

What does libre mean?

[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Libre software? Libre software means we control it.

Did you search it? Literally the first result:

Free software, libre software, ... is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.[3][4][5][6] Free software is a matter of liberty, not price; all users are legally free to do what they want with their copies of a free software (including profiting from them) regardless of how much is paid to obtain the program.[7][2] Computer programs are deemed "free" if they give end-users (not just the developer) ultimate control over the software and, subsequently, over their devices.[5][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

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