I got distracted from my work so I made some Continuwuity propaganda. Continuwuity is a lightweights Matrix chat server that you can self-host pretty easily. Give it a try :3

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    9 hours ago

    be warned that continuwuity phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin, you may want to turn that off before booting first time

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          while i don’t want to throw shade on the developers’ intentions, nor have any real proof of what data is being kept, a fetch request bears by minimum the source ip (which can be geolocated) and the fact that the homeserver exists and runs continuwuity.

          i’d suggest a matrix channel as alternative, so hosters can opt-in by joining. plus, by leveraging the matrix protocol, such announcements become federated push notifications, meaning they could come from any homeserver (limiting ip logging) and don’t imply the continued existence of such deployment, or the software which is being run

          even converting such mechanism to an opt-out “auto-join announcements channel” would be more privacy respecting

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          BREAKING - Release 0.1 of DON’T is now available - DON’T does absolutely nothing when you start it, except to present an enormous Consent List of everything it can do if you let it. Outraged digital freedom advocates are criticizing what they call excessive download times, sluggish support, and that the app takes up memory space without doing anything.

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      phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin

      What is that and why is it bad?

      you may want to turn that off before booting first time

      How do you do that?

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        I assume they’re referring to the announcement check, configurable via an option in your config file. It’s what we use to make sure everyone knows about important things like security updates.

        Edit: Lemmy keeps breaking the link, it’s under allow_announcements_check