Hey nostr friends, it started raining so i had to come inside early today. I've been busy making a list of alternative apps and ways to communicate with a group of like minded friends, in light of the recent crackdowns on free speech. I'm gonna try to get at least some of them on nostr. Its always good to have a plan.
Anyway, it rained off and on today, which is good because we need the rain. I was forced to do some indoor work and catch up on other stuff. Yall have a good evening nostr friends. Stay happy, healthy, and free. #grownostr #homesteading #countrylife https://image.nostr.build/cd5461e9b1328467a9c457b9b324cfd66992b7798a4882b435c4a1de0e88190d.jpg
Glad you got some rain. Hoping we get some later this week.
mind sharing the list? Sounds like a well thought out resource
Element/matrix
Signal
Nostr
Are my go tos
I've been looking at Session too, no phone number or email required. And xmpp works well, both for text and calls. I use Cheogram app on my android for that.
Session is decent.
Will have to add these thanks
How many relays can they really be running?
Pretty sure oxen is the only group running any. Their financial model depended strictly on a token to incentivize people to run nodes and I feel like that went nowhere.
Also, while they once had Signal forward secrecy, they quit using it for some reason. Dunno why. So messages *could be decrypted if they run a mitm attack and end up getting access to the keys.
Its just kinda weird.
Probably fine for low threat models but I'd stick with OTR or OMEMO over XMPP or Simplex if you're concerned about targeted surveillance.
Well, that's good to know. Thank you.
If your ssh public key is published somewhere accessible, it enables someone to spin up an OpenBSD VPS, add your key to the approved keys list, get you the ip, and you can all ssh in and use the internal mail to talk back and forth.
With the files never leaving the server. A tool for more serious times.
I wish I know how to do that. It sounds much more interesting.
Try #Deltachat with a personal or trusted mail server.
Like what?
Session (no phone number or email required)
Signal
Matrix
Xmpp
So far, my favs are xmpp and Session. I'm sure there are others.
Great snap of your cat in your garden 😊👍
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