Credit to https://www.reddit.com/user/lukakopajtic/
There might be some changes that could improve it further:
- Remove Brave
- Maybe add Signal; It's easier than Element, but it's also centralized
- Stop suggesting Linux Mint specifically
- Recommend Hosted Nextcloud
- Add GrapheneOS
- Maybe add Delta chat
- Maybe remove Bluesky
- Remove Stremio and add Jellfyin (even though it's selfhosted and not a direct equivalent)
- Add ente because Immich is selfhosted
- Add aurora
- Add SearxNG
- Add SimpleX
- Add lichess
- Add pCloud
Any other suggestions?
signal runs on amazon servers. Anything that can't self host and isn't federate isn't worth it. Matrix (and element) fill this requirement. But IMHO, the best is XMPP where you can self-host or use federated servers located in other countries.
Delta chat is basically email.
Why? Because it's torrents?
Other alternatives would be viaplay or britbox. Unfortunately there's no legal alternative that's available in all europe.
Aurora is just a front-end for google playstore. You should add f-droid
If everything is e2e encrypted do servers actually matter?
yes. Metadata. some protocols leak more info than the others.
Also servers in only one place (institution), only makes it easier for the government to go to that place and seize them.
And what metadata is Signal leaking? As far as I know even their notifications are not sending the message.
The government seizing an entire batch of amazon servers seems unrealistic, but the data would be encrypted anyway. Do they even store messages on servers, anyway?