Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

Questionable decision of the day, but I went ahead and got one 😬 #AppleCard

#PSA: If you haven't already enabled 2FA on Mastodon, do it now! Preferences > Account > Two-Factor Auth 👌

@c1t1z3n0n3 do you host all the content on your own servers or do you use an external storage provider like S3 (not AWS S3 necessarily of course, but any S3-compatible provider)?

@c1t1z3n0n3 very cool! Do you have the Nextcloud E2E encryption plugin enabled?

@nikolal wait, are you getting "Access Denied" when logging in to the Nextcloud web interface, or are you getting that error when connecting to the Pi over SSH?

@botta we were definitely inspired by their work (and especially their desire for independent security audits in the VPN industry), although we had differing criteria (notably our stance on Five Eyes countries) so we reached a bit of a different conclusion 😄

I just updated the criteria section as well, with more updated and clarified info if you're interested.

@glitcher32 nope, unfortunately. I ended up just buying 3 phone plans for myself 😆

Very annoying that the only legitimate free phone number service is *Google* Voice.

@me PIA does not meet two of our criteria: It has not been independently audited, and it's a US company.

The US has good consumer protection laws, and PIA has held up their claims in court in the past, but being within the Five Eyes makes it far likelier your data will be caught up in an NSA surveillance dragnet. For PTIO users we decided that was an important criteria, but other than that PIA seems to be relatively better than lots of contenders, just not our recommendations, IMHO.

@glitcher32 they're fairly similar security-wise, but Wire works with an email/username OR a phone number, Signal doesn't give you that choice. I still use both.

I changed my mind: I want to try out going invite-only and see how it works out for us. We're getting a lot of registrations but it seems like most accounts aren't even used. I strongly believe in quality over quantity and I hope adding some limits will help keep our conversations great!

More info @ https://social.privacytools.io/about/more#invites — definitely open to feedback on this.

@OneSubtractOne hopefully the Matrix team will replace Synapse eventually. I think they're working on a Go version (rather than Python).

@danarel ah well. Some aspects of Matrix are concerning, but it still doesn't seem like there's a great alternative for large public chats 😕

@danarel are you done with Matrix?

@OneSubtractOne Synapse is pretty terrible to run anyways really, Mastodon is very nice.