the other decent options are matrix and simplex chat, and mayyyybe session. matrix seems to have the most users and kick to it right now. out of those options. but yeah youre not gonna get the average tech illiterate person to get on a more complicated alternative to discord, essentially

Only reason I’d recommend signal to anyone is that its one of the few encrypted apps that doesnt have awful onboarding. A boomer can figure it out.

the boob jiggle physics are genuinely ridiculous on this mod, i just watched the preview. gamers are brain broken

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Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here’s the text

Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.

Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.

As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.

Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat

Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:

hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender

Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:

pixelfed.org

Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:

lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog

Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org

Some servers don’t do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.

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Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people

It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.

Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you’re using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.

Encryption of public rooms can help prevent mass scraping of content, they still have to join to get keys.

Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though

True but its fairly closed right now, right?

Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.

For the record, this loser also DM’d me a long screed about how he has trans friends and he’s gay and thats why hes an authority or something. He’s @ing me in some irrelated thread months later because apparently I occupy much of his mental bandwidth.

Yes lol

Update: some anti-diy trans people on reddit (who post to 196 🙄 ) got so mad about Hexbear that they petitioned spez to add Hexbear to reddit’s spam words list

My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.

GUI absolutely does matter for helping adoption of linux, I’m not interested in hearing arguments to the contrary either. Everything should be as GUI’d as possible if we want linux to grow

Does it have a driver gui?