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Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that.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:

lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog

Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org

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

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Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people

It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.

Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you’re using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.

Encryption of public rooms can help prevent mass scraping of content, they still have to join to get keys.

Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though

True but its fairly closed right now, right?

Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.

For the record, this loser also DM’d me a long screed about how he has trans friends and he’s gay and thats why hes an authority or something. He’s @ing me in some irrelated thread months later because apparently I occupy much of his mental bandwidth.

Yes lol

Update: some anti-diy trans people on reddit (who post to 196 🙄 ) got so mad about Hexbear that they petitioned spez to add Hexbear to reddit’s spam words list

My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.

GUI absolutely does matter for helping adoption of linux, I’m not interested in hearing arguments to the contrary either. Everything should be as GUI’d as possible if we want linux to grow

Does it have a driver gui?

Yeah, thats useful for laymen / people that dont want to tinker a whole lot

Nah, I’m on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.

I don’t know of any ‘bleeding edge’ distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.

guess a lot of people that post there got banned? idk. i may make an account on ttrpgnetwork 🤔