I would like to request a “hug” button on Mastodon that I can tap when someone posts something sad or emotionally delicate, for when there are no words and tapping a star seems like a weird thing to do.
@kubikpixel
Ist @cwtch sicherer als @session ?
Beide Messenger unterstützen dezentralisierte verschlüsselte Peer-to-Peer Chats, #cwtch über Union Routing, während #session Lokinet/Oxen Blockchains nutzt.
Laut der Website ist Open Privacy (im Gegensatz zur Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation) eine Nonprofit-Organisation.
Allerdings gibt es für die https://cwtch.im App noch kein Security Audit?
There's one main thing I like about #BlueSky, #Nostr, #Cwtch, and the in-development P2P-ified #Matrix over #ActivityPub and Matrix as they're generally deployed now: your ID doesn't depend on DNS.
I've not been in the Fediverse very long, but I've already seen people lose their entire social graph because an admin unilaterally took down an instance. When you tie your identity to DNS, you're at the mercy of the domain owner and every point of control over the DNS as a whole, including the court systems in every authoritarian jurisdiction. Not your keys, not your identity.
I like the admins of my instance here, but I see the toll it takes on them running it even with the community's contributions. It's a lot of pressure and a lot of power to have that much control over identity and trust for your users.
I don't think we have to wholesale move to other protocols, though. The beauty of open networks is the freedom to build bridges. When people do migrate between them, it can and should be as smooth as migrating between ActivityPub instances in the happy path, and remain fully interoperable.
This week we are celebrating 6 years of the Open Privacy Research Society.
We want to take this opportunity to extend a huge thank you to all of our supporters; without you we would be unable to do the work that we do. Thank you. 💜
🎨 Custom Theme Support! It is now possible to load new themes into the Cwtch UI and customize it to your liking
🖌️ Additionally, this release contains many small UI fixes and accessibility improvements
🐞 Many small bug fixes including improvements to file sharing on Android, and support for newer versions of Tails.
Ja… äähhh,… ja und dann vielleicht gleich auf @briar und/oder @cwtch zum chaten wechseln? Wenn dies überhaupt noch jemensch aktiv nutzt. Nun ja, @signalapp ist leider nicht dezentral.
»Messenger der 2000er – ICQ macht nach mehr als 27 Jahren dicht:
Er ist einer der ältesten Chatdienste ‒ und hat die Jugend der frühen 2000er geeint: Nun ist für den Messenger ICQ bald Schluss.«