@NullNowhere for the alternatives section in the blog post, would telegram be an okay addition? Imo it wouldn't...unless ur 16 and over cuz uh telegram

@NullNowhere tbh telegram I wouldn't add cuz signal is there in the list

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe Telegram has various murky ties to the Russian state. I definitely would not settle on it for privacy / security concerns.

@NullNowhere OOP.

@NullNowhere I have
Others:
Biar, Signal etc.
As alternatives aside from matrix.
Anything else? Ye I did metion fedi! I think that's pretty much it, no way much teens would use Xmpp anyway.

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe I am sure there are others but I don’t have much reason to explore.

Regarding Fedi, this is where it’s important to model. Fedi isn’t a part of the advertising world, but also, one of the weaknesses of the protocol is that private messages are not end-to-end encrypted, meaning admins and possibly mods (not sure how this is implemented on Mastodon etc) could find your messages. So if I had something truly sensitive to say, I probably would not say it over Fedi.

@NullNowhere btw updated the blog post to fix the not correct info and clearly sate what ya said and what I meant to list fedi for!

@NullNowhere I also listed threat modeling too! I used snoopy parents as an example. I hope that uh works

@NullNowhere btw have u used signal for long term? I wanna...but I gots nobody to use it with.

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe I have. It’s hard to get people to use something else but I generally tell them that I will only have certain conversations in certain environments and they can move the conversation over or not talk. You decide your own boundaries.

That and I think it’s really good to encourage having several ways of communicating with people on several platforms. Resiliency is another important if separate issue. You are not as bound to Discord if you have another way to contact and organize your friends, for example.