@tuxicoman @GrapheneOS @matrix @disroot Disroot realized this years ago: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure
I will never understand why some venture capital funded startup with shiny clients got so much traction in the FOSS community over existing internet standards. XMPP clients really got a lot better in the last few years, without tens of millions of investor money.
@Indigo VPNs and script blockers don't protect you from OS backdoors.
@Indigo Installing Linux is easy. It's just a matter of installing an ISO onto a flash drive, rebooting your computer, going to the boot menu to boot to the flashdrive (usually by pressing F12 on the BIOS screen) and clicking install once you booted to Linux.
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
@Indigo Why are you using Windows?
@opal @sallymayweather He can't see your replies. bird.makeup is a one-way Twitter bridge.
@Indigo Oh. It looked like there were Mac icons on the bottom of your laptop screen.
@Indigo THROW THE MACBOOK OUT THE WINDOW!!!
@m0xEE @astheroth @newt I wouldn't trust ProtonMail either. It has a lot of red-flags such as requiring you to store your private GPG keys on their servers. There is no reason to require that unless they want to be able to read your email.
I would recommend Posteo for email. They accept anonymous cash-by-mail payments (only 1 EUR per month) and allow you to generate your own keys client-side. That or you can try cock.li if you can get an invite. They do offer a few SFW domains like airmail.cc and firemail.cc. The other option would be to host your own email server, but that's out of the scope of my ability, so do your own research if you want to do that.
Granted, you shouldn't fully trust any email provider or VPN. You have no idea what they are doing unless you have physical access to their servers.
@eliasr @astheroth There is no reason that you should have to fully dox yourself just to sign up for their paid email when they offer crypto payments. Hell, Posteo doesn't accept crypto payments but you can still pay for their email anonymously by mailing them cash ala MullvadVPN.
@m0xEE @astheroth @newt Free accounts don't include email though. Only their Mastodon and Matrix servers.
@astheroth Their Librem.one service suite requires you to give them your home address even if you are paying with crypto.
@RustyCrab I remember subscribers complaining to Youtubers that they are seeing content that they didn't subscribe for. So instead of ignoring it, YouTubers just created other channels for side content.
@Zerglingman @hachi @p @sysrq @animeirl You do have a point.