Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

@pkntl oof yeah, a bit...

@pkntl yeah, it's kind of like a decentralized, federated Discord. It works somewhat similar to Mastodon except for Instant Messaging instead of standard social media posts. But it has some cool features like End-to-End Encrypted Chats as well.

I wouldn't say it's on the same feature level as Discord (yet) but it being self-hostable and federated makes it a better solution for us.

@trooper welcome! let me know if you have any questions :)

If you're familiar with Matrix we now have a chat room you can join at #general:privacytools.io (https://riot.privacytools.io/#/room/#general:privacytools.io if you need an account). If you just want to hand out and discuss #privacy.

Hey everyone! privacytools.io is now on Matrix at #general:privacytools.io 😄

Feel free to join us or make an account at https://riot.privacytools.io/ if you don't have one already!

@N welcome! 😆

@eddiemoto or feel free to just ask questions to the public here, lots of smart people on Mastodon.

@eddiemoto hey! I setup the privacytools.io pastebin, feel free to ask me anything or PM me.

@watchfulwheel there's three timelines, Home, Local, and Federated (see: https://social.privacytools.io/@jonah/101825503333455540 for what goes on which ones).

If you use hashtags in your posts they'll be more easily discoverable in search. 500 character limit on posts.

You can follow people on other instances, usernames use the format "@jonah" (like email) where "@jonah" is the username and "@triplebit.net" is their instance. If you want to share your profile on other instances you need to give others the entire thing.

@Mayana The only reason I'd consider DNS filtering is if I was running a Wifi network and wanted to ensure everyone connected had certain sites blocked, and if I didn't have control over their devices.

That's the only useful situation I can think of. If I did have control over a device, adblocking software like uBlock is generally the way to go.

@Mayana it just seems too heavy-handed to me. And it doesn't block ads on a lot of larger sites like YouTube anyways, because YouTube serves their ads from their root domain name (youtube.com) which obviously can't be blocked by DNS filters without blocking the entire site. The filters work perfectly well and are more fine-tuned.

@Mayana I don't feel the need to do that because of uBlock Origin, but if I were to do DNS based ad filtering I'd probably just go with a Pi-Hole install rather than dealing with updating the hosts file. DNS filtering isn't really a great solution anyhow.

@thoughtcrime interesting, wasn't aware of that. At the end of the day it really just depends on your threat model I suppose. Personally I would probably just go self-hosted for everything and use client-side encryption (PGP) rather than trust some closed-source solution (Protonmail) to do it for me. But my privacy needs don't require anonymity (which I feel are often conflated). If you're looking to hide your identity but need to accept clearnet emails, Protonmail seems like the best bet.

@thoughtcrime @pkntl to be fair Protonmail is really only E2EE with other Protonmail users, who aren't numerous. PGP is the best solution for email E2EE, and that's a provider agnostic solution.

@Gina on-prem for sure, third parties having access to our data is a concern.

@Gina why'd you go with Kopano instead of something like Mailcow (https://mailcow.email/)? Just curious, I'm investigating my own organizational email solution currently.

"accidentally", as if they've never voted on anything before 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/mar/27/mep-errors-mean-european-copyright-law-may-not-have-passed

@Aggharshit010899 Bromite seems fine privacy-wise, but I'd probably still go with Brave for casual browsing, Tor for any time you need to stay private, personally.