Hello Fedi Friends!

I hope you had a lovely weekend.

On my end, I've been getting an education re: decentralized messaging apps, #E2EE and censorship over the last week.

I incured the ires of #Meta for using a bridge to access my #Instagram inbox. The same issue has been reported a lot over the past 3 days in the #Beeper subreddit.

At the end of the day, I'm happy I moved to #Signal in 2020 and I'm very curious and eager to learn as much as possible about #Matrix.

My BFF is an expat living in the Middle East and I find a lot of stuff about messaging and censorship absolutely fascinating. Like: did you know that Signal is blocked in a certain Middle Eastern country where the use of VPNs is illegal? But 99% of people there use Whatsapp to communicate? Even if Meta says Whatsapp communications are E2EE? Fascinating right? 🤔

There is so much to discuss about this, so I enlisted the help of a Matrix expert. I will most likely publish a piece about this for #TheFutureIsFederated next week.

Wishing everyone an amazing week! (And I'm using Friendica to write about this for its amazing post formatting and to bypass character limits).

cheers,
Elena