Privacy

33992 readers

1920 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What do you think about Session as a potential replacement for Signal? (getsession.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

55 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Especially for the less tech-savvy among us?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What do you mean poor performance ?

My synapse used to run on a 5€/mo VPS besides other stuff and ran fine and now runs on one of my on-premise servers (and not even my fastest, just some old ryzen 2700) with A BUNCH of other stuff besides it. Multiple users, a bunch of large federated rooms, bridges to other messengers ... And it just runs fine with 0 issues.

Are you talking about running a synapse server for like a thousand people or on absolute potato hardware or what is the issue ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm not running a Synapse server myself so I can only speak on behalf of people I know who are. From what they told me they love the matrix protocol but it's not the same for the synapse implementation. A non-federated server can have somewhat great performance but a federated one was not worth it for them so they decided to switch to another alternative. They are not running for thousands of users more something like 40 I would say and while I don't know their server specs, I assume it's not a potato though.