I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it’ll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here’s a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

  • set a username
  • change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
  • hide your phone number
  • blicante@moist.catsweat.comOP
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    2 months ago

    What are the “popular” alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn’t allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too…

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            2 months ago

            You understand that, for everyone except for a complete network pro, that is worse for security and privacy, right?

            Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that you can.

            But the reason piracy websites struggle so much with long term stability isn’t because they’re hosting the wrong software.

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              2 months ago

              If you don’t put trust on someone something, you left yourself to trust and do all the works. However, you don’t trust yourself either, sadly I can’t offer any solutions.

    • liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn’t have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the “right messaging” service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better).