Off-the-Record Messaging VS Librem Chat

Get Pidgin, download the (OTR, Off the Record)[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/] extension so you will have no data on your device stored. Source: 10 months ago

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

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

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

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

Librem Chat is one of the most liberal instances since their business revolves around privacy and free speech, the free option gives access to Mastodon, the optional paid plan adds email and a VPN to Mastodon. Source: 12 months ago

The "librem.one" entry in the Online Accounts doesn't work either. I get a TLS error IIRC. It's a crime that their bug tracker isn't free for all. Source: over 1 year ago

Or any recommendations? I was thinking of joining unredacted.org or librem.one or is there no point not just going with matrix.org which has the more up to date server version and most likely best maintenance and uptime? Source: over 1 year ago

The main thing I would personally be worried about with Purism is a lack of timely software updates, as they were not good with them when it comes to their Librem One ecosystem (why even offer something like it, when you don't have the resources to administrate it properly?). Therefore I wondered if that might have been an issue with PureOS. Source: over 1 year ago

Https://librem.one/ is a step in the right direction. I’m going with Microsoft plus third party privacy services for the moment but biting the bullet in regards to my DAW and switching to Reaper. Framework laptop and building a new PC. Making my current pc a steambox. This should be interesting. Source: over 2 years ago