Ruby Ashton 🍋‍🟩❄️

This is not how you deal with scammers, NEVER let them know that you caught on to them, and don't tell them to stop doing it, they won't, no matter how much you shame them or preach to them..
It's their side hustle because it makes them an extra buck, if you're smart or lucky.. others aren't, so what you should do is waste their time, the more of their time you waste, the more victims you're saving.. play dumb, entertain the convo, "talk about yourself more"..
This is how you really beat scammers, blocking them or letting them know their own intentions!! just makes their jobs easier.
#scams
#nevent1q…z3xt

2025-11-17 22:05:12 UTC

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I can't wait for the day they'll be ready, also honorable mention: #DeltaChat (I use daily to send stuff from desktop to phone -vice versa-)

2025-11-17 21:55:57 UTC

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well 🥺👉👈.. I switched from Telegram to Signal -still I don't trust Signal Foundation tbh- I just like the polished client (Molly)

2025-11-17 21:48:31 UTC

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Cwtch and Cabal, I like these two as well.. 😉,
WhiteNoise and 0xChat when they're ready
And whatever Dark-Fi are doing 😁

2025-11-12 10:18:42 UTC

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For me, I'll be #degoogling my phone very very soon, so this change doesn't affect me, I can still enjoy "sideloading" apps from other app stores ( e.g. @nprofile…tdq0 #F-Droid @nprofile…tx3m )
but what about the other 3.9 billion users, that will be treated as not just hostages, but slaves.. digital slaves literally.. until one day they'll wake up to the reality that they don't own what they bought and paid for.
#enshitification
#nevent1q…g5fs
#nevent1q…fvc3

2025-11-11 19:45:58 UTC

Let's Fight Back @ZapStore
#google #digitalrights #lockdown #aosp #android #privacy #cybersecurity #opensource #android_is_not_ios
https://keepandroidopen.org/

2025-11-11 17:01:44 UTC

Boatloader unlocked 😎🤓 at last, time to #degoogle

2025-11-08 11:15:14 UTC

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I stopped watching Marvel after phase 4 ended, they didn't have anything new to offer which what leads people superhero fatigue (I did enjoy the Punisher and Daredevil :D)
hate comes from critics being loud and having so much influence, yes.. they do make good point a lot of times.. which boils down to: "focus on the story telling not what the audience feelings"
Ultimately, when I shut down my brain from trying to look for flaws in any show.. I'll enjoy it.. I watched the entire first season of Solo Leveling and I enjoyed it.. despite the poor story and character build up.
> I like Daredevil too :)

2025-11-06 08:38:44 UTC

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Like I said, YouTubers gonna YouTube
#nevent1q…w345

2025-11-04 20:36:01 UTC

gosh 🙄😒, why can't #youtubers just make informative straightforward content without the immoral clickbaity approach, that will certainly make wojaks (that includes politicians) have the wrong idea about what's being discussed.
This entire video by LTT was ruined by the manipulative attention seeking tactics that work so well on normies, criminals and law enforcement alike.. all of them see how this OS can be very useful tool for criminals, that's it, they don't understand why the GrapheneOS team are doing all of this work, they don't understand the ethic that we call privacy.. they're the same type of people that say: I don't have anything to hide, I shouldn't worry!
remember when the french government arrested 7 people for using Fdroid, Signal and Linux.. for "association of terrorist criminals” or when the creator of PGP was detained for "arms export" .. the moral of the story is governments hate the fact that you're using your encrypted Linux box, degoogled hardened android and your communications are private, and they want to outlaw that.. (see: Chat Control).. selling GrapheneOS as the CriminalOS doesn't do us any good when you consider these events now, does it?
YouTubers gonna YouTube
#grapheneos #privacy #degoogle #tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDR6V5OdnYg

2025-10-31 12:54:05 UTC

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Thanks for the mention 🤗

2025-10-30 18:37:03 UTC

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No, that wasn't me.. 😶

2025-10-30 18:31:41 UTC

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lightening ⚡, seems like it didn't work for some reason, idk what's wrong 🥲
https://blossom.primal.net/6f89cfa262aa214f53ac39949d3c5b1e930a9d1ee0ed49da59d3eef61266bfbb.png

2025-10-30 18:17:53 UTC

Oh I just zapped and I think it went thru.. ⚡
let me know @nprofile…s7jv 😁

2025-10-28 19:46:01 UTC

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Oh that's so sweet of you 😭

2025-10-28 17:01:04 UTC

someone posted a song in german, I liked their post, so they DMed me this: "Do you even speak German?"
I guess because the song is about "sexual assault" / r@&e they might have thought I'm just liking posts without understanding the story..
I told them, that I liked the beat, and just because I don't speak a language doesn't mean I don't get to enjoy the vibe..

2025-10-25 09:10:47 UTC

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the guy who was about to speak next, doesn't seem trustworthy at all, if he is and I'm just being a jerk.. then why is he doing the villain pose and the bored disregarding eye movement? the guy on his left seemed focused and interested notice how he shifts his body to face him while he speaks.. sometimes reading body language can tell you who's likely to be your ally.. just saying.

2025-10-23 22:34:40 UTC

"I just wanna wake up with a calm soul"
GN 🌜🌌
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bnjSahP74DI

2025-10-23 20:07:07 UTC

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there's something very rewarding about publishing a piece, writing clears minds too.. do share when you do.. 🤟

2025-10-23 19:04:05 UTC

I love blogs, I can read blogs all day, I also love hoarding blogs and never reading them 🙂

2025-10-21 18:53:41 UTC

So I have been working on my #opsec for the last couple of days, here some interesting techniques I learned
- It's very hard to leak your IP address when using #Whonix, Android can still leak your IP address even when the kill switch is enabled
- #CryFS is the best encryption algorithm in terms of privacy, however it's not audited and doesn't like large files, I tried to encrypt a 20Gb file, and I couldn't decrypt it 🥲
- #TailsOS can access other #USB sticks while in use, this is very useful if you keep a wallet in Tails and maybe your password database in another encrypted USB stick, still TailsOS has also good encryption, so it's hard to extract stuff from it.
- it's true, Tor Browser did mess up an important spoofing feature that made Linux users look like Windows users, this is very bad news for us Linux users because we're few and we will stand out, the only solution is to use a Windows VM at this point, but VM or not, Windows does client side scanning and keystrokes capturing.. It's a compromised system, AVOID at all costs... That also applies to Apple products (ALL OF THEM)
- confuse the ad networks by searching for random stuff, and get a privacy screen for your phone
- last but not least: URLcheck is small FOSS app that I think all people should be using, a lot of phishing attacks happen because people accidentally click on links, this app replaces your default browser so it let's take a closer look at the link, it can sometimes label that link (malware, adult content.. etc)
https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

2025-10-19 21:30:58 UTC

Philosophy is the thinking that help us figure out a suitable lifestyle for us. (Individually and collectively)
Politics is debating which lifestyle must be applied to all.
Are you a philosopher or a politician?
#asknostr

2025-10-18 12:49:50 UTC

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So I guess this is similar to what Europe is trying to do with Digital Euro, right? It helps surveil everyone, and extend their euro lifespan (which is a new idea to me)

2025-10-18 06:22:54 UTC

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So, what's the point of this project then?

2025-10-17 14:09:15 UTC

#ZorinOS says they reached 100K downloads in less than 2 days since it's launch, and over 72% of these downloads are coming from Windows.
That's what I call success 👏(and thank you #Microsoft for making #Windows more trash, keep doing it)
https://blossom.primal.net/831b87acc9689c6cb27dab62abfa603c014bf191b2d06d34e7dfaada83c192ab.jpg

2025-10-15 11:59:12 UTC

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Exactly, it gives the illusion of content ownership for the creator, but the biggest beneficiary is platform/studio..etc
Upload your content to proprietary platforms, they claim ownership over it so they can go after anyone who uses it without your consent, sounds good on paper, until you realize it's all part of their ad driven business plan.
a good example of this is Facebook and IG (useless) share button, what's the point of sharing from these platforms if people have to sign up to view that content.. so what you notice is that the most vocal platforms about content ownership are the most locked down ones, the ones that hold their creators and consumers as hostages, and the irony is that these platforms can license your content to third parties whenever they wish
on Spotify this recorded segment plays after (or before) random songs: "ads help us pay the artist you love.." 🙄😒.. seriously you pay artists a fraction of cent for each ad which requires surveillance for the ad machine to work.. it's a system that doesn't care about how much stuff it breaks as long as there's money to be made, (for the people who own the platform, not the creators of course)
copyleft solves this, it frees information while giving creators an ethical way of monetizing their work. (I'll write a post about it)

2025-10-15 10:17:48 UTC

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Thanks for the mention 🤗

2025-10-14 23:55:42 UTC

#Copyright is the DUMBEST thing I ever heard in my entire life 😤

2025-10-14 20:08:42 UTC

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Useful idiots

2025-10-14 19:20:45 UTC

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The reason I'm hesitant to say "all drama" is because there is indeed drama, like real drama not the ones planned behind the curtain, started by anonymous accounts, and amplified by real people.. sellouts (devs, mods, committees.. etc) with hidden agendas (No, not the communist idea, that's what they want you to think)... and bots... yes bots deployed by surveillance agencies.. who knows what they're calling their operation this time!
I have another theory that explains all of this UNNECESSARY drama, which is really simple: Brainwashing. but this is just a theory... I have nothing to back this claim.. unlike the state operation, which anybody can see it.. if they look closely.. and see how these events escalate. and who's doing the escalation.

2025-10-14 18:38:26 UTC

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This is my explanation for this drama, for all drama really..
#nevent1q…zkt8

2025-10-14 07:57:07 UTC

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Oh yes... That's exactly what I'm talking about 🤓😸

2025-10-13 17:24:33 UTC

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Mastodon has all kinds of emojis and even animated emojis (from distro logos to memes), they're so cool..
I think #nostr should copy that.. Idk how.. but they should

2025-10-13 08:10:46 UTC

So if I write #Bitcoin and #Nostr a symbol is displayed next to each word.. Oh.. I can't say how much I'm a fan of such little features.. can we please have more symbols? 🥺🙏
Devs: like what? 🤷‍♂️
Me: YES.

2025-10-12 21:36:08 UTC

The entire drama that you see in the Linux and Open source world.. well, actually I take that back.. Most of it.. is started and amplified by state funded and/or affiliated provocateurs, they come like sharks that smell blood, and the result as we have seen over and over again is a bloody mess.. people end up devided, projects weakened, and generally nothing stays the same after that.. you could feel that the projects that went thru drama, has started to wear this corporate cloak, heck.. It's worse than that.. they start acting like a 'political party that decided to start making software'.
If I was the government, this is exactly where I want these "free software" developers and their communities to be, their belief in me is above their belief in what they're doing, I (the state) made them believe in two fundamentally contradicting ideas, that's why they will never trully make software that threatens my control, despite me being the inferior idea, despite me relying on violence to exist, despite me deviding them, manipulating them, lying to them, and when they do make software that threatens me, due process be damned, hunt them across borders and throw them in jail. It's really sad.. the software they're making can make a change, their vote doesn't and they argue over the later..
Now back to the main point.. these sharks that start biting on git and forums spaces, notice how they make things personal.. notice how they leverage the things that *they know* divides people, they focus on that, and they amplify it, and they absolutely HATE IT when a voice tries to bring the community together.. I can give a couple of examples: DistroTube, they tried to cancel him before but it didn't take off, when he showed his guns.. he's now suddenly a far right extremist, crusader.. whatever nonsense they were saying... even someone like Brodie, they dug thru his past, de-anonymized him, and showed what?? a 17yo.. being a 17yo, saying some dumb shit.. they also showed that he was trying to hide his past once he started getting famous.. you got to appreciate their argumentative skills.. btw I don't like Brodie's channel.. I don't like his voice, but I can see what's going on, he brings people together despite their political views and their identities.. shall we say, he listens to all sides, and chances are.. all sides listen to him.. (I'm talking about his second channel Tech Over Tea in case you're lost)
the bottom line is: be very SKEPTICAL of the voices that try to divide, they're stealthy like scorpions, they will tell you: Oh, look person X said something bad.. he's a terrible person and his project too, and Yeah... maybe it's a bad take.. But step two is where they manipulate most people, they apply peer pressure to get you to subscribe to the protest, usually by shaming you if you don't.. I say "umm I think we're overreacting" and I get shamed.. Of course there is the reverse tactic.. they might say something like: "Hey, I'm just throwing this out there and you do you" .. yeah still shaming.. just without pressure
They're so hard to detect, because they use valid reasons.. as a disguise for their true intention, to bring a project to become political, once that happens, it's no longer a threat to the government, it's no longer Free software, it's political software Aka State software.
#politics #opensource #drama #freesoftware

2025-10-12 18:51:20 UTC

The #Fediverse is so obsessed with safety, #Nostr is obsessed with Free speech
If you're someone who selfhost, you can have the best of both worlds

2025-10-10 14:03:44 UTC

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I use mainly 3 browsers (excluding Tor)
Floorp because it keeps the old #Firefox icons on the menus, unfortunately it's still Firefox (same bugs, same performance, same limitations, same privacy concerns I.e. Google analytics, same security concerns: weak web isolation)
I also use Firefox with UserJS (because Mozilla keeps adding more and more spyware and Ai crap that nobody asked for to please their globalists buddies at the WEF)
Cromite is my go to browser for mobile after Bromite died. RIP
Wbu? what's working for you?

2025-10-10 13:32:16 UTC

It's true, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, after all.. It's the old tricks that got the old dog old.

2025-10-10 12:40:06 UTC

Don't you hate the fact, that all #browsers s.u.c.k!

2025-10-09 20:15:46 UTC

Apple literally be selling the same phone to people
YouTube tech reviewers: this phone.. It's so special, idk.. maybe it's the design.. But.. It's the same as last year.. so.. Idk.. there's just something about it.. It's unique.. It's something we never seen before.. maybe.. It's the camera resolution, but that hasn't changed either.. so I contacted them again, and they said it's the..
😤🖕
#applefanboys #apple #hardware #enshitification #pr #scam #corruption #youtube #youtuber #ios

2025-10-09 18:32:15 UTC

"Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?"
me who's burnedout and overstimulated by all the noise in the room 😵‍💫

2025-10-07 16:55:49 UTC

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So relatable, I 💯% agree..
the positive side is that it 'isolates' you from those average people, the privacy minded people are people of culture.

2025-10-06 14:52:37 UTC

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you gotta ask yourself as a human-being, all that work, for what?! is there a finish line?
life is not about working, it's about living, it's about experiencing life, work takes that away

2025-10-05 21:07:11 UTC

Duuuuude, the level of braindead level content on #Tiktok is seriously concerning, get this.. people be streaming themselves doing all kinds of uninteresting daily life activities such as typing on a keyboard, washing their hands, brushing their teeth, cleaning the table, and sometimes just doing meaningless stuff.. Idk.. like this guy holding an egg, gently removing the eggshell without tearing the inner membrane like he's doing some sort of medical surgery.. for what purpose? no one knows
Or this other silent actor who starts speaking and dancing, but only when you send him a reward, what does he say? "thank you, thank you, thank you" that's it 😑
these live streams get like 1K views AT LEAST, which is mind blowing..
another guy just live streams himself eating his breakfast 🤦🏻🤦🏻.. and saying nothing.. that's the TikTok content, that's the show.. they don't even put the least amount of effort to produce the least amount of value during these shows.. just open up the camera and live stream whatever, because people are so braindead they'll watch and reward whatever you stream for them
I'm still trying to process what I saw 😵‍💫.. ok, ok.. maybe there's a platform for every kind of group, maybe.
so what if i say that Tiktok is the platform that attracts dummies who went to other platforms and saw that other people's IQ was too high for them, so they decided to settle on Tiktok, could that be the case? 👀
#enshitification #creator #entertainment #humor #bigtech #streaming #value4value

2025-10-05 19:14:49 UTC

when a #book is banned by a government, you #know it's a must read
#books #censorship

2025-10-05 18:31:19 UTC

my niblings say I'm the best uncle in the world 🥹😭

2025-10-05 17:05:33 UTC

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😺🤜🤛

2025-10-04 22:15:29 UTC

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#enshitification has no limits
#nevent1q…mm2n

2025-10-04 19:44:53 UTC

Ok #Nostr I can't edit my posts, I swear I'm not trying to hide my ugly past, I'm not trying to censor myself, please let me correct my typing errors🙏😭

2025-10-04 19:14:37 UTC

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This 👆.. I was just talking about this
#nevent1q…c3zp

2025-10-04 19:12:45 UTC

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GrapheneOS is awesome, super easy to install, however it's not for everyone not because it's hard to use or anything, but because It doesn't fix the very core issue I'm talking about in this post.. Google's #monopoly
we can't tell all people to buy pixels and install GOS and expect that to solve this issue
we need alternatives, alternatives to every single Google product, especially their hardware which GOS devs keep saying it meets their security standards
we also shouldn't forget that Linux can be a viable option in the future, for that to work we have to invest in it first

2025-10-04 13:48:34 UTC

#Google looked at the fact that people can use Android without ever needing to link their entire devices to a Google Account which is just a fansy way of saying Google ID, and thought.. well.. time to end sideloading by requiring developers to register to new platform submit their #government ID and pay a fee as well (i know right!🖕), link all the IDs of their apps so then their apps can be sideloaded to Android by users
This is not about security, this is about ending people ability to not be linked, I have set up people's devices to be more private and secure without ever needing a Google account, in fact I told people.. many people I met.. you don't need to have a Google account just so you can download apps
I used #Fdroid, @nprofile…tdq0 and Aurora, enabled private DNS with Mullvad, used #DuckDuckGo Tracking Protection (it takes the #VPN slot), disabled all telemetry settings and sometimes i even deboat their ROMs with Adb.. It makes their phones usable (no on screen ads), less bloated, less power hungry.. people often ask me? well what about my Gmail account or Yahoo or whatever? Here's the solution: Fairmail
with this upcoming change, even if the user turns on: allow installing from unknown sources, their sideloaded app will not install because the developer hasn't verified themselves with Google and paid them for the privilege to do so 🙄🤬😾, the Os will just refuse to install it
This can be mitigated with a custom ROM, but c'mon how many people have the technical know how? I'm a nerd and LineageOS wiki still scares me..
Also, custom ROM support is slowly fading in the Market, Evil companies like #Samsung and #Xiaomi go out of their way to lock the boatloader.. and completely remove alternative OS support
#Monopoly is a curse to mankind
#privacy #bigtech #rom #evil #surveillance #control

2025-10-02 22:49:42 UTC

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thank you, I will give it a shot 😊

2025-10-02 22:47:05 UTC

I subscribe to political channels
you subscribe to #politics
we are not the same 😎

2025-10-02 20:14:31 UTC

So, I started doing research on the people YouTube banned in the past.. well.. they don't look like what you would expect.. #YouTube is so dark
#censorship #bigtech #technology #don'tbeevil

2025-10-02 18:52:14 UTC

I feel embrassed to ask at this point.. 👉👈
what #wallet should i pick?
@nprofile…xl8h feels like it can do everything but I don't think I'm ready to become john wick yet..

2025-10-02 18:37:08 UTC

I feel like most people see the news, and just form their #opinions based solely on these news.. when we talk, I can feel their confirmation bias kicking in..
the news you're seeing will always have at least one blind spot, that prevents you, the reader from seeing the whole picture about that event
If you want to be truly informed, my advice is to follow the updates to that event, not just that.. go back in time and look for what events led up to that event, also you should look for what strangers are saying, people who were there or are affected (how many people do that? not too many)
Most #news outlets will cover an event, and never talk about it ever again, but the worst ones are the ones that use a certain event to score political points..
and these news outlets are like magnet, people are drawn to different ideas and thoughts, and these outlets abuse that human nature and radicalize people by feeding their biases..
this gets worse with social media platforms like #TikTok and FB which are designed to maximize user engagement and they use every dark pattern they could think of, their algos are rigged. you only see what they allow people to see.
what you end up with is people who think they know, but they really don't.. who talk like intellectuals but it's all an illusion, who they themselves spread #misinformation while they're fighting it, they don't have all the pieces of the puzzle..
Now that is called a narrative, add #censorship to the equation and you'll have #agenda

2025-10-02 17:33:53 UTC

ever since I stopped watching violent action movies, I stopped having nightmares.

2025-10-02 07:26:06 UTC

I don't speak Latin, but does the word 'Government' really mean "Mind Control" ? 😧
#asknostr

2025-10-01 17:15:16 UTC

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I was about to mention that thing with SimpleX nodes, but I wanted to keep these short and only focus on the things that bother me.. I hope there'll be more adoption for it..
Signal has a lot of things going for it, but that one data point that they ask for, is very revealing, and when it comes to governments strength is in numbers, they can't arrest 1k people for using it, but they can if it's just 10 people in every city..

2025-09-30 23:20:11 UTC

My really quick and short #messenger review:
#Signal : strong encryption all ruined by the phone number requirement, if your threat model involves a government, it's not for you.
#Threema : no disappearing messages, seriously! however you can buy it with #bitcoin (it's always a good thing when FOSS projects charges some amount of money for sustainability)
#Matrix : a looooot of negative reviews by people who are much nerdier than me, I have faith in the FOSS community so I believe them, and according to my own experience.. It's really sluggish and buggy, I use Schildichat and while I appreciate the Fully FOSS nature of the client, the protocol is so painfully slow
#WhiteNoise : I don't know about the technical details of this one, I hope it turns out to be the go to app for dissidents and activists, at least the website gave me those vibes, I hope it can deliver.. it's still new and it's really barebones.. we will see where it goes
#WhatsApp : it's surprising to me that WA added Ai bullshit before it rolled out advertisements on the App.. I mean it will.. not yet, but it will..
#Briar : This app is a journalist/activist dream come true, it has a forum feature, group chats, it has Tor support with Orbot.. sadly it does all that in a poor manner, the Ui looks dated.. Like it's an app from 2015.. still..If your threat model involves a government, consider Briar
#DeltaChat : the main pain point with this one is that it aims to be a decentralized E2EE messenger/email, but it makes the mistake of recommending one server for newcomers, I get it, easy onboarding process, I always go out of my way to change the defaults, but you only have like 5 other servers.. I really want to like DC, but it still needs to grow, and work on some other areas like Voice calls
#SimpleX : support MU icon themes already, the app is pretty usable (I say this because the lead dev wants you to fork the project but not implement a really neat feature in the Android ecosystem) the reasons he gave are just dumb
#Telegram : optional privacy, is bullshit privacy.. also Durov is a shady liar, "I live alone" what are you? Dracula.. no cats no birds.. psycho..
Session: I wish it had multiple profiles, it's what I recommend to normies, it makes them feel like hackers and they like it
XMPP: idk if PGP encryption is enough to make you safe, I mean there are lots of failure points if you go with this one, you have to trust that the other party are securing their keys properly, the server jurisdiction can be a problem, hell even the server configuration can be a problem, they could log your IP for long periods.. long story short.. It's fun to dive into xmpp, but there are better options with way less effort (and stress)
#privacy #chat #cybersecurity

2025-09-30 22:08:17 UTC

ALL APPS MUST SUPPORT MATERIAL YOU ICON THEMING, BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME.

2025-09-30 22:05:29 UTC

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lol, I can never hit send on a freshly formed opinion.. the Internet scares me 🙈..
it's a good thing that you don't hold it in.. 😺

2025-09-30 16:26:14 UTC

have you ever wrote a comment or a post, spent some good amount of time rephrasing it, maybe even changing the entire argument.. just to end up holding the delete key and erasing what you were about to say?!
sometimes silence is the best answer.

2025-09-28 11:45:22 UTC

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It's not orchestrated, it's inevitable.. ever heard of create the problem and offer the "solution"
#nevent1q…80m4

2025-09-26 21:58:13 UTC

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I don't, i wish I could 😭

2025-09-25 17:39:52 UTC

#introduction
Hello #Nostr my name is Ruby, (like the programming language.. lol), I'm a #trans boy from south africa, and no I'm not black
I'm here to ask questions, and you'll follow me because you'll want answers 😛