#PrivacyYathra reaches #Palakkad on the inauguration of FOSS Cell at NSS College of engineering. The same college that produced Santhosh Thottingal and Nandaja Verma.
More photos of #PrivacyYathra. Though we did not get enough time to discuss #privacy in detail. I just reminded them how #Facebook manipulates what we get to see, how we cannot verify if #WhatsApp is really end to end encrypted, how our personal information are stored forever by these companies without us having any control.
I strongly recommended #Matrix #Mastodon #Diaspora and #PixelFed to them. #PrivacyYathra
When I asked people to raise their hands if they don't use #Facebook, there were many hands, when I asked for people not using #Facebook nor #Instagram the number reduced, when I added not #WhatsApp, there was just one hand. I'm happy there was at least one person. Abhinav, their FOSS Cell coordinator was that person.
@pookito
Did you try pattle.im? Its still not feature complete as riot, but has a simple design.
@yisraeldov
nheko is pretty good, though lacks features compared to riot. I use nheko on desktop.
@pookito
@yisraeldov
Why can't they use Riot?
@pookito
@yisraeldov
The developers are redesigning it to make it easier for newbies. Hope we will see a release soon.
@pookito
I don't think there is a problem with #riot per se. It is not intuitive or as easy to use and or smooth as competitive apps that is all. I don't have a #FaceBook or #Instagram acc, but I have seen other people using them. the smoothness on scrolling those apps are second to none. The layouts and the eye candy are so impresive. we might have freedom of software but they have the eye candy and the smothness of app. That is all. we can get there, eventually.
@pookito
What about a better desktop client for matrix? I use the weechat plug in but that isn't good for your everyday user.
@praveen