internets were there before Google. I'm sure there are many people on lemmy who remember google as a new search engine they tried.
internet would be different, like it was different, if these hogs like google and facebook are banned from collecting and selling user data. Fuck surveillance capitalism. (fuck capitalism while you're at it)
i have simplex, element, briar and even rattlegram.
with messengers "a different experience" is interesting (for me) but if the people i'm communicating with are not sharing those "experiences", what good do they bring? Am i going to chat with myself?
Getting people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp was a challenge already. Now almost all my contacts are on Signal.
How am i going to get people to use any of these apps considering that Signal has no shortfalls (like belonging to Facebook and spying on you)?
The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the better the Tor network will be. The current Tor network is quite small compared to the number of people who need to use Tor, which means we need more dedicated volunteers like you to run relays.
sadly, i too heard that from somebody π€·