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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 11:37:47 EDT Adam

   I published a new blog post this morning, about trying out Wire (the messaging app). Do any of my followers use it? Any interesting chat groups I should join?

   http://www.kellysniderfamily.com/adam/trying-out-wire/

   1. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 13:47:05 EDT thurloat 📌

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      @ink_slinger I've not used it personally, I was hearing something about how the dev won't release on f-droid, and builds can't be verified against the source code. and that the open source server can't actually talk to the production one sketched me out a bit.

      IMO encrypted message bodies are becoming less important if you're exposing all the convo meta to a centralized provider. i.e. who are your contacts, when you do contact them, with what frequency, how do msg timings link to IRL events.

      1. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 13:48:33 EDT thurloat 📌

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         @ink_slinger I've been meaning to give GNU Ring a shot, but haven't bit the bullet yet.

         One of the reasons is that the UX still doesn't favour non-technical people, so I'd have a pretty limited circle in which to give it a shot.

      2. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 13:49:48 EDT Adam

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         @thurloat For some reason I thought Wire was on F-Droid. Turns out I was wrong!

      3. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 14:07:01 EDT Adam

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         @thurloat I'm just digging around through various options on F-Droid now and seeing a fair number of e2e encrypted "chat" apps that are actually email in disguise, using IMAP, for example, to send messages without relying on a central server. Very interesting, but trying to convince non-technical people to use F-droid in the first place isn't easy.