Well, this is unfortunate.

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@Gina @JakeKb Seriously, Signal. I switched from Jitsi to Signal for meetings on the project I'm working on now, because of minor technical issues, and it's worked better anyway.

Now, Signal might not meet your needs for this if participants don't want to disclose their Signal usernames/phone-numbers, since Signal doesn't really do "multiple accounts" like they should. But if it does work, it's great, and actually private.

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@imacrea @Gina Did you seriously just snitch-tag?

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@Gina Das ist ja mal ein riesiger Schuss in den Fuß ... warum?

[privateger@plasmatrap.com]

@Gina@fosstodon.org will people ever learn proton is a massive fed honeypot or will this continue

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@privateger @Gina Proton products have always been snake oil. I think people *want* to believe they’re the good guys, for lack of easy alternatives.

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@Gina disappointing, but not entirely unexpected

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@Gina from 1 cloud trap (Google) to another cloud trap (Proton). ️

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@JakeKb @Gina signal

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@Gina I can't believe in 2026 people still trust Proton, can't people realize by now it is really a bad idea to put your trust in a centralized provider?

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@dalias coming soon (AGAIN!!):

ProtonMail official announcement: due to lack of resources we will be discontinuing our account here (not because you all are too woke and expose bad publicity about us) so please follow us on X and Reddit from now on to keep up to date, ok??? and remember: we really care about your privacy!

@imacrea @Gina

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@arcanechat @imacrea @Gina Sadly the fedi has no shortage of people who keep stanning for discredited "private email" and "private messenger" scammers.

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@arcanechat @Gina I still don't know what the realistic alternative is for electronic communications. it sucks... but without worldwide regulations, it's just always going to find ways to suck for people outside the inner circle of beneficiaries

and I very much want to pay a company that can avoid that, but... they are competing with companies with near monopolies, so how _can_ they compete? (and even the regulations would have to be like, morally guided and principled, but they wouldn't be...)

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@caitp to be honest, I don't think there is a solution for streaming of video to huge groups of people (ex. twitch-like)

but if it is just a meeting with a few people maybe some p2p calls like using webrtc could work, it would be all end-to-end encrypted and without needing to trust any company and also near zero server costs for them

@Gina

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@regendans @JakeKb @Gina
Signal works for those who have a cell phone only I believe.

I use @hostpoint and KMeet from Infomaniak for individual video calls (ex. My Mom).

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@Gina
No bueno.
This stinks.

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@JakeKb @Gina we use BigBlueButton. It sometimes glitches, but usually it works fine

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@Gina is this blog format some sort of template? or ai slop? i feel like i've seen the same UI before, paired with incredibly slop writing a few times before. It *feels* like an llm wrote this

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@danvolchek no idea.

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_Miguel Yes, their CEO's behaviour has been a significant red flag, and I think we're going to continue finding out that they've been lying for years as they've moved to comply in advance on this wave of anti-privacy bills being tossed around the world.

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@dalias

Only if you don't know the meaning of the words "own" and "fascism".

@Gina