@strypey So there's a lot to unpack in that document. The #Session onion routing protocol involves using a #blockchain called #Loki to make it difficult for an adversary to control a significant fraction of the nodes and prevent exposing the IP addresses (and therefore identities) of a user and his/her contacts to the same person or group. (As you noticed, Session is not yet using onion requests.)
There's also swarms and attachments and message storage (including attachments), online vs offline messages, multiple device support, spam resistance, a modified version of #Signal's encryption protocol, group chats (3-500 member "closed" groups are end-to-end encrypted like the rest of Session; "open" groups are not, and require an account on a special group server [self-hostable])
Note that all this stuff happens under the covers. It seems that Session will handle most of it without the user ever seeing it. I'm going to query some family members and see whether any would be willing to try this as a secondary channel (for now #Wire is our primary channel). Just adding offline messages is a clear advantage over #Jami, but the lack of audio & video chats is going to limit its usefulness.
Whatever AP devs do, determined BadActors can easily circumvent blocks by going to the web page of your feed. What people looking for private discussion spaces need is something like #jabber#MUCs, or #Matrix rooms, or #Wire group chats, or #Crabgrass groups, or private Discourse instances, or any one of dozens of other free code tools that exist for private group discussions. But no, they demand we turn the fediverse into those to suit their use case. #EntitledAsFuck
Thanks. This is a tough one. #Wire is the first and only privacy-centric tool that is in widespread use among my friends and family. Several of them tried #Ring (now #Jami) before that, but it was a bad experience all around and cries of "it got better" won't get anyone to try it.
Here's a report on our third #VOICE testing session on Satuday, where we intended to test group voice chat on #Tox, but ended up having more success with #Wire: https://write.as/yt03jv11742w2.md
Our next session is scheduled for Sunday 2 November, starting at 12:00 UTC. We currently coordinate testing at: #voicechat:matrix.org
Having said all that, I just remembered proposing pretty much the same thing some time back, including a reference to #Forget. I was inspired by the self-destructing messages in #Wire, and thinking it could be a good way to reduce the storage needs of the fediverse, as well as increase the signal-to-noise ratio of its archives. https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101212607635047102 @rtwx@wion@jessmahler
@rysiek hasn't #Signal demanded people not connect third-party clients to their servers? In fact, any binaries not distributed by them (they refuse to let #FDroid distribute their app). These are only two of many reasons not to support Signal with your unpaid time: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/779
@rw A few family members complain that I can’t see their calendar events, but the biggest annoyance I have with not being a #Facebook user is all the people that say “did you see what cousin so and so just said?” and then stick their phones in my face.
If I wanted to see all that random garbage, I would still have an account.
Yes, but how can we get in touch with you?
Let me count the ways: * call * text * !XMPP * #Wire * #Ring / #Jami * e-mail * in person * contact any of my sons, nephews, siblings, my youngest niece, the cousin that lives in TX, or my mom and ask them to forward
That conversation would have been at least a year ago, and probably on #Wire -- my main laptop with all the comm clients on it has been relegated to to the basement to be a server (dead screen), and my currently laptop lacks the oomph to do things like #Ring / #Jami / #Wire
Good morning. I’ve already had my daily #YoCo ( #yogurt / #yoghurt and #coffee ), navigated around a online forum conflict, had a couple of personal conversations over #Wire and #XMPP, been greeted by an excited three year old (sister’s granddaughter), and tuned in to @sir’s coding stream. #TZAG