pleroma.debian.social

@heavenly_general @morenonatural I think Daniel (maintainer of conversations.im) had a good point about this:

Things like federation can help with the metadata problem because it is not kept in a central place.

See: https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html

AFAIK, nextcloud federates or at least it did when I used it on my university's instance. I personally prefer syncthing cause it solves the metadata problem by being peer-to-peer.

@heavenly_general @morenonatural Ya, that post definitely made me very skeptical of "privacy respecting services" that dont federate. (ie. protonmail, signal, etc.)

@heavenly_general @morenonatural For chat, I selfhost prosody. Prosody is very easy to setup and can be run on a raspberrypi.

For video calls, I am an fsf member so I can use their jitsi instance.

@heavenly_general @morenonatural

Email is much harder to selfhost. My current provider is migadu. You should read their privacy policy and such. Ive heard good things about posteo and other places. Ofc. Email is very insecure and ideally, someone makes some software to make pgp easier for normal people and it gets adoption from big organizations (banks, companies that bill you, etc.).