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  • It would be a magical thing, it would be p2p and use relays so thin clients can connect to it, it would be 100% anonymous via onion routing and also allowing tor, but at the same time, somehow, it would handle spam (maybe by generating some cryptographic token somehow?).

    It would also support storing and distributing files inside the app which includes HTML pages in a p2p IPFS fashion, so it could be used as an alternative to torrent. So like, besides communities you could host HTML pages, and those pages could contain links to films, and series and stuff.

    And maybe several models of communities, so you could create a reddit/lemmy style community, or an youtube/peertube style community which would host videos.

    Also DM part of the app would have very strong e2ee support groups and calls.

    So I guess it would be an everything app.

    And ofc it would be free both as in price and freedom.

    Now I realise that the codebase would be almost impossible to maintain and such a complex program would probably have too many bugs including security bugs which would defeat the purpose. But it’s an entertaining thought.



  • Simplex is really easy to install and use, unfortunately it’s still kinda buggy, specially with public relays, I personally don’t mind buggy, I’m willing to make sacrifices for the same of freedom and privacy.

    I just keep a second chat app as a failback so I can send them a message saying “ur simplex broke again, pls restart”

    Xmpp has been stable for decades, tho I guess otr/omemo is hard for family to install, also doesn’t support e2ee calls (or rather, it does, but it’s complicated). But I haven’t used xmpp in a long time.






  • Idk about GrapheneOS in particular but I find the sandboxing solutions for GNU/Linux like bubblewrap to be much more granular than standard Android.

    “give us access to manage phone calls or we won’t you me answer internet calls (which have nothing to do with actual SIM calls)”, “give us access to all your files or we wont let you share that file via the share function (which doesn’t need fs access to work)”.

    On GNU/Linux I can only give a program exactly the resources it needs, I can disallow dbus, I can block it from accessing potentially troublesome things like /dev/dri, can overlay filesystems and pretend that’s my real home dir. Or can just mount the whole / to some other system.





  • And I would be one of the few people who wouldn’t go on vacation and would have to refuse must jobs because of some absurd believe that even if a copy of me is made after I’m dead, that’s irrelevant for me since that’s still not me and I don’t want to die.

    Or maybe I would take the teleporter as an alternative to suicide, and whoever would take on my life wasn’t me, so my problems where their now.