• marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOPM
      1·
      14 minutes ago

      Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here’s the text

      
Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.

Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.

As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.

Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat

Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:

hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender

Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:

pixelfed.org

Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:

igbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog

Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org
  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    57·
    2 days ago

    Fediverse sites are not private and secure. That is basically the entire point, it’s an open standard that shares information with whoever wants to spin up an instance to receive it.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      26·
      2 days ago

      Except using centralized social media (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) will guarantee your IP, probably location and other user data is logged onto a server, basically free for the fascists to see. Lemmy is at least decentralized, private, so more hurdles to request data from, by design not data hungry (eg. no apps that log your precise location for “advertisements”), and a lot of servers are out of the germans (oops, true, we’re not the nazis anymore/yet) americans jurisdictions.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      yup, what you post publicly is public. It’s the reason I find it irrational when people are complaining about X now lets blocked users see your posts. Your posts are public, people who created a fresh account can see your posts, it is already public, blocking stopping them from viewing your posts only gave you a false perception of privacy.

      The only advantage of fediverse is you can choose an instance that doesn’t sell your browsing habits, other instances can only see your public actions like public posts and votes.

  • KaRunChiy@fedia.io
    181·
    2 days ago

    To all my girlies and guys and everyone else out there, while these next few years are going to be horrible to us, we have to hold strong. They chose us as the scapegoat for their problems, and we must show them that we are the real victims of this. Our pride as citizens of a free world comes before the overwhelming pressure of a potentially fascist government, and as scary as it will be, I really do have faith that we will be okay, and that the free world will be on our side. It may not even be in our lifetime, but it will come, and our actions in this day and age will determine this.

  • OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I think the scope is way off. I read through the comments and I found things I did not expect to find here (which messenger is better) and not the stuff I was expecting to find, which is the actual survival game. Yeah sure, reliable secure telecommunications is an aspect of it, but if you really expect the US to pull a Holocaust on trans people there are several other things to think about, both before and after discussing the channels of communication.

      • rcbrk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Embedded images on lemmy are loaded directly from the servers they’re stored on, often not your home instance. Bam, adversary has your ip and access time and what caught your attention.

        • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOPM
          2·
          1 day ago

          Some servers don’t do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.