Mullvad VPN has DAITA which does something similar but more legit

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Most are staying, but there’s a growing shift to simplex among privacy/anon focused people

1. Signal uses closed source and centralized servers to deliver all your messages. Some people don’t like their communications being dependant on a corporations computer, and would rather maximize data sovereignty when possible.

2. phone number requrement is unacceptable to some people

If SimpleX makes bad choices it can be forked and self hosted, whereas we would be locked in with signal and at the compamys whims

It’s OK to stay on signal but to say no one is switching is untrue.

It was pretty small numbers before (darknet) but a youtuber called Mental outlaw did a video on it recently and now it’s exploded into the more mainstream privacy communities.

It isn’t perfect, and signal has a lot of perks but there’s no need to literally ignore new developments

Its a LOT more anonymous, not slightly.

For the overwhelming majority of users phone number alone = no anonymity, then there’s the fact you’re relying on a corporation to store all your messages on their closed source centralized server…

Perhaps one could set the duress pin to something easily guessable if they were worried about a brute force

If you want privacy you either do graphene on a pixel (cake and eat it too), or linux phone (huge downgrade in usability and reliability)

Stock Android is not acceptable, it’s even worse than Apple.

ungoogled chromium removes this

when did it stop being useful?

why dont you?

theres seal on android, ive used it on waydroid but thats pretty silly

idk i think plenty of people carry expensive stuff on them

what a thief could actually get for them is another matter but clearly that doesnt stop them from trying

no, not true you can put whatever you want on it. ours boots into a nice tv like ui and they open stremio with a remote and thats it

its up to you to make it nice and easy

the user experience is not radically different from a corporate experience except its faster and without ads or spying

best way is a mini pc you can put an open source OS on

then you totally control it. they can be found cheap used and are usually upgradable

they are thrown out by schools and buisnesses all the time. it does not have to be very powerful by pc standards

it can also be your first home server if youre interested

hopfully they dont communicate locally with other lg or partnered devices

now or in the future

haha im sold

i wonder about things like liability and insurance even if i were able to run custom software

librebooted cars when

uh wasnt his passport revoked mid flight and the plane landed in russia against his will?

hes been basically trapped there

+1

Have you tried simplex?

yes i know a kia owner with a similar story