Off-the-Record Messaging Reviews

Diaspora Reviews

Off-the-Record Messaging mentions (10)

• What’s does everyone use for messaging?

  Get Pidgin, download the (OTR, Off the Record)[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/] extension so you will have no data on your device stored. Source: 11 months ago

• My way is definitely not overthinked but there should be any more easiest/secure ways?

  To understand more about it read here: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca. Source: over 1 year ago

• Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client

  A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps. All the sudden you use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. At least that was my experience. I used to use Pidgin with OTR[0] for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I didn't need to trust them. Also used... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• EU law threatening 'commercially painful changes' for tech out tonight

  Why so pesimisstic. In a sane world (and probably in the world where they want to say "just use WhatsApp, we're better!") they'll say "This user is using an unencrypted app. [Paragraph about how all your nudes and contents of bank account will be stolen]. Are you sure you want to send them a message?". In a better world, something like https://otr.cypherpunks.ca could be implemented, where the user has control of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• IRCv3 spec round-up 2021

  OTR is the de-facto standard for encryption on IRC. It's also quite old, so it predates IRCv3. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Diaspora mentions (29)

• Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts

  > whatever that Ruby-based alternative was, that Zuck famously invested in, but to which I have zero memory of the name right now I think you're referring to Diaspora. https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Imgur Is About to Wipe a Ton of Porn From the Internet

  Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand. Source: about 1 year ago

• Twitter will remove accounts created solely to promote other social platforms

  I remember making similar comments about Diaspora vs Facebook a decade ago, but people are... lazy. Yeah, let's go with lazy. Source: over 1 year ago

• Stop

  To be fair, its not Mastodon, its the #Fediverse. Mastodon is arguably the least rich platfrom on the 'verse. IMHO Friendica is where its at, and you can still communicate with all the twitter refugees on Mastodon, as well as meater content on services likeDiaspora*, not to mention full integration with Lemmy (which works fairly similar to Reddit) while Masto you can see lemmy posts and replies without having to... Source: over 1 year ago

• Open source social media

  Several upstarts have tried to capture what you're talking about. Diaspora was an early entry, the Fediverse is another that seems to be gaining momentum in a way Diaspora never did. Source: over 1 year ago