• Sidhean@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    I’m checking out Stoat, and its giving me infinite captchas. Its not fake or something, right?

    • mintiefresh@piefed.ca
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      42 minutes ago

      I have used Stoat for awhile. It works. I think they’ve been bombarded with new signups so it’s kind of taking their system down. But hopefully they get back up and running. It’s a great opportunity for them right now.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      29 minutes ago

      The Discord news is hugging them to death. If you get past the captchas the email verification takes 24h to arrive and is expired when it does. It’s fine. I’m patient.

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      2 hours ago

      Welcome to Lemmy, where there are easy open alternatives that don’t actually work or need 300 lines of new code weekly.

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    5 hours ago

    I’m in the process of switching my two communities to Matrix. It’s not bad from a user point of view, but running your own server is such an enormous pain in the ass. Like, way harder than it should be.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      You mean actually hosting a matrix server, like a rocket instance it’s something? Or do you mean having a room (channel? Topic?) on a public matrix server?

      I’ve never done either. Is it even possible to have a private room on a public server?

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    2 hours ago

    Open source your code and then you will have a leg to stand on about trust. Right now it’s just “trust me bro” when you have proven record of being lying piece of shit.

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      6 hours ago

      That wouldnt even help much. The issue is them being in control of the servers and that its not e2ee. Even if the client is open source, they still get all the data and control.

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        4 hours ago

        If their claims are true then it would help. They claim that they process everything locally and only sends the check to the server. But again, there is literally no reason to trust any word they say without being able to verify it ourselves. Proprietary systems should never be used for this.

        Also their liability avoidance doesn’t inspire confidence. Discord outsources the liability to k-ID and k-ID outsourced the liability to Privately.

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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          4 hours ago

          Im talking about message content, images, contact networks, behavioural patterns, etc.

          As long as its not e2ee all that can be inferred from just the serverside data even if the client sends only whats necessary. And the last two even if it were e2ee.

          This whole ID thing is just the tip of the iceberg. People are just blind to all the spying that was already happening without them noticing.