netchami

netchami, 7 months ago

Discord is an absolute piece of garbage, it’s not a good messaging app, definitely not a good place to host a community (seriously, I don’t understand why some communities saw Discord as an alternative after the Reddit API changes), and most importantly, it’s spyware. The company doesn’t have a business model and it was founded by a guy who is notorious for creating random shit that’s not economically sustainable at all. I don’t understand why anyone would use this shit. This video outlines everything that’s wrong with Discord: youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU

Switch to Revolt or Matrix

netchami, 7 months ago

Signal is finally delivering the stuff we have all been waiting for. First, they implemented post quantum cryptography in the protocol in September, then we got message editing, and now we will finally get usernames. Awesome!

netchami, 8 months ago

Get the fuck out with this proprietary cancer. All of the software listed in the blog post is spyware. Google can go fuck themselves, no one on this planet should be giving up their privacy and freedom to such a garbage company, no one should be using their shitty software.

If you read this blog post and honestly thought about using any of this, I have some better advice for you.

1. Don’t buy a foldable phone, it’s unnecessary as fuck and will break very quickly
2. If you actually have a Pixel Fold or any Google Pixel Phone, you’re kinda lucky, you can remove the proprietary spyware OS and replace it with GrapheneOS, the most private and secure mobile operating system which is free and open source
3. Don’t use Gmail, use ProtonMail or Tutanota instead
4. Don’t use Google Docs, use something like Collabora Office instead
5. Use Jitsi (preferabely on an instance that allows anonymous meetings) instead of Zoom
6. Use the GrapheneOS Secure PDF Viewer instead of proprietary Adobe cancer (you definitely don’t need that garbage on your phone to read a PDF)
7. Check out the Privacy Guides page on Cloud storage services, but definitely don’t use Dropbox as they participate in the NSA PRISM program, just like most of the other services mentioned in the Google article
8. Fuck Evernote, use Notesnook instead
9. Stay away from Todoist, use the FOSS Tasks.org app from F-Droid instead

Bonus tips: Read some more articles on Privacy Guides, set NextDNS as your private DNS service, use an Email aliasing service like SimpleLogin, try to use VOIP phone numbers and virtual credit cards from Privacy.com if you are from the US.

netchami, 8 months ago

Notesnook is cool, I used Standard Notes before but the Notesnook UI is much better, especially on the mobile apps. I don’t know if they are profitable right now, but their business model is just their premium plan for 5 bucks/month. They might have lower expenses for staff though because IIRC they’re a small team from Pakistan, where wages are obviously lower than in Western countries. Everything is end-to-end encrypted and their apps as well as their backend infrastructure are open source.