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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Discord alternatives (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tested out revolt and element. Out of the two element seems to be the most well rounded. What do you people use to replace discord to protect your privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do we know that these solutions are more private than Discord?

Even if open source, how do we know the compiled version wasn't altered?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can always compile from scratch, compare the checksums or use the version you compiled. In projects this large people usually do this, and there's a certain level of trust that these checks have been performed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

A lot of compilers have things like timestamps in the finished product that could mess with hashes. I guess hashing the rest of it could work if hashes for non static regions are given.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup. If you're paranoid, you can self-host and watch network traffic to ensure things are encrypted when they're supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure but how do you know those encrypted requests don't contain personal or unexpected information?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Set up two clients and send data between them. You can have it log out exactly what data is being sent since the whole thing is FOSS.