Well there are many other parameters not mentioned yet and based on my individual risk assessment I ranked the solutions and made a cut-off. Something that is security-wise absolutely terrible is Discord, yet it carries so many OSS support groups that the benefit was worth the security risks.
If you want suggestions or opinions: I would suggest Matrix.org for the Bacula support groups (best client so far: Element.io <http://element.io/>). Security is very configurable, and one may participate without any personal information (e.g. just a fake email address) and one may use an own matrix home server or go via a VPN/Proxy/Tor to connect. Since there are no central servers needed it is way harder to control by governments (as you know: some countries like Russia do require commercial chat services to provide government access interfaces). The UX is similar to other modern chats like Discord, Mattermost, Slack. Many OSS support groups are already on Matrix. Just my 2 cents > On 20. Mar 2022, at 11:14, Heitor Faria <hei...@bacula.com.br> wrote: > > Hello Justin, > As expressed, it is a personal decision. > I want to limit the amount of chat apps I install and use. > Technical security is not about my social security number (in fact no system > can protect your information from being ready by any 3rd party, if you put it > into any publicly accessible group, no matter how technically secure it might > be), > I respect your opinion, but our mobile phones already have enough bloatware > for the FANGs to snoop information and to play Pavlov's Dogs experiments with > us. I can't idulge myself in this way because I gotta be where my consumer > is. > Nevertheless: "there are cases where Signal can be less private and less safe > [than Telegram] depending on your definition – for example Signal requires > use a phone number for connection with other users, which can have > significant physical safety risks for many people who are targeted by > stalkers. Telegram for example allows the use of a username instead which can > be significantly safer for many people." > but that`s a different can of worms and I guess off topic for this mailing > list. > I don't think this is off-topic at all, since we are discussing other ways of > user's community communication. And frankly speaking: email is extremely > dated and prone to unreliability. > > Regards, > -- > > MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) > Bacula LATAM CIO > mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 > mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3> > <http://www.bacula.com.br/> > América Latina > bacula.lat <http://bacula.lat/> | bacula.com.br <http://www.bacula.com.br/> >
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