I tested out revolt and element. Out of the two element seems to be the most well rounded. What do you people use to replace discord to protect your privacy?

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    8 months ago

    How do we know that these solutions are more private than Discord?

    Even if open source, how do we know the compiled version wasn’t altered?

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      8 months ago

      You can always compile from scratch, compare the checksums or use the version you compiled. In projects this large people usually do this, and there’s a certain level of trust that these checks have been performed.

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        8 months ago

        Yup. If you’re paranoid, you can self-host and watch network traffic to ensure things are encrypted when they’re supposed to be.

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          8 months ago

          Sure but how do you know those encrypted requests don’t contain personal or unexpected information?

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            8 months ago

            Set up two clients and send data between them. You can have it log out exactly what data is being sent since the whole thing is FOSS.

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        8 months ago

        A lot of compilers have things like timestamps in the finished product that could mess with hashes. I guess hashing the rest of it could work if hashes for non static regions are given.