Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?
I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.
Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634331f5b6be12375bf4229412eed3f2f3543cfe119df37e1b72c883143d4a
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in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого • • •Let society devolve in a fascist dictatorship where people randomly disappear. That will make people care for a generation or two.
Short of that, I think a lot of people don't care about privacy.
My sister switched away from Telegram to Signal, because she was getting a lot of spam. And blocking randoms from contacting you is now a 'Telegram Premium' feature.
So I guess... Enshittification helps? But it was not really a privacy centered consideration.
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in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого • • •By not being available any other way. I wrote about it here in 2 comments: social.vivaldi.net/@opensource…
#networkeffect #fossadoption #fossadvocacy
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in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого • • •the children/teenagers in my family all use signal: it was easy to convince the parents: private, secure, hideable phone number (and avoid unwarranted contacts) and usable without Google/PlayStore.
The latter point being important, as many parents don't want their 11 year old kid to have a full blown phone.
I was surprised to find out, how well that worked: the children have a lot of their friends&contacts on Signal.
Sadly, as they grow older, the adults' Whatsapp network kicks in.
Ge0rG
in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого • • •I'm running a public XMPP server, fighting the (unfortunately prevalent) automated spam, and try to make the onboarding experience for beginners as smooth as possible on a federated system.
yaxim.org/yax.im/
Will try to come to your talk!
yax.im - public XMPP service - yaxim
yaxim.orgFossman
in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого • • •There's a 3rd strategy which is actually the main reason our family groups switched. Our main chat app was one originally created in a country whose government is accused of #apartheid and #genocide. Whenever that came up in the news, I'd drop a subtle non-pushy comment here and there mentioning that fact, and also that its present executives are located there and support their army's actions.
After one of these major events, to my surprise, someone else, the admin of our family group (non-techy, not #Linux user at that time), arbitrarily decided to delete the family group from the proprietary messenger and told everyone to join the family group on #SignalApp!