WireMin has recently announced their new feature (for those who don’t know what is WireMin, it is a decentralized version of Twitter + Signal):

"You can now customize your Social Preference!

Wanna connect with the world➡️ Enable Spaces.

Wanna stay low key➡️ Disable Spaces.

Your Social Network, Your Way!“

As a 3-month user of WireMin, I am quite familiar with the ‘Spaces’ feature; it is definitely their standout feature. Here are a couple of things you can do in the WireMin Space:

  • Chat space: you can create your own public/private one or join other public chat rooms anonymously.
  • Feed space: you have your own feed where you can post text, pictures, or videos, set them to disappear after 48 hours, or even choose a longer duration.
  • Space Discovery: it’s like a ‘Spaces Plaza,’ where you can find all the public chat spaces or feed spaces as long as they have been active in the past 48 hours.
  • Plus, due to its nature as a decentralized network, there is no censorship here, and no one has the power to ban anyone, even though there is toxic content (they do have a NSFW content filter, but it can only filter those spaces that the creators have flagged as NSFW).

So, I don’t know why someone would want to disable the Spaces! But looking at it from another perspective, not everyone enjoys posting on their feed or joining anonymous discussions. This makes Space Discovery useless for them, so an encrypted messenger for 1-on-1 chats might be more useful to them. I have used it under the ‘Disable Spaces’ mode; it offers a 10-member limit for secret groups. That’s too limiting for me, but it might be sufficient for colleagues to discuss confidential matters in a small group.

Anyway, overall, I think it’s a pretty innovative concept for a social media platform, especially since it’s decentralized. I really believe they are making significant changes to the digital world. All I need now is the source code, please!

      • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        (I can’t believe I’m replying to a spam account) In case you can’t read my linked comment:

        It’s not open source. There’s no way to actually verify any of their claims.

        As others pointed out: “Contact Us” with gmail, facebook, twitter, or instagram. Any company (or individual) remotely advocating for privacy would be using (semi-)private services, even when advertising their own alternative.

        The terms of service / privacy policy includes:

        WireMin establishes a self-organizing network only by a number of active instances of WireMin apps. WireMin, as a protocol, utilizes advanced security and time-tested cryptography to provide a private messaging tool and social network. All of those are achieved in a democratized network without relying on a cloud service or back-end server.

        No single bit of user data will be collected. WireMin is not even capable of doing that.

        No user information will be provided to us, not a single bit.

        however, it also contains

        WireMin collects minimum device information

        and

        Occasionally for WireMin App on mobile devices, an additional device notification token (e.g. iOS devices) may be collected, to enable push notifications. Again, that information is collected without exposing user identity or the device’s IP which eliminates the possibility of user tracking.

        It is impossible to not receive user information, and impossible to receive such notification token without knowing the device IP. User/device info gets provided to the app developers when someone downloads their app from the app store or play store. To actually use the push notification token, it requires server infrastructure. A push notification token is useless without having a centralized server to use it. Not having any servers means you can’t use the token, and having the token spread across different servers to remain decentralized would be dangerous, as the token could be used to fake notifications from the app.

        Added to that, the blatant spam and advertising that’s happening in posts like these or comments under other posts related to chat applications. Your post is part quoted “update log” and part advertisement written as if it’s a review.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    It’s a scam. It’s not recommended by privacy guides. No source code. This is in no way shape or form related to privacy.

    • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      There is a great benefit to using decentralized services. They cannot be taken down by any entity, and control over data is in the hands of server hosts, rather than one company. Once running and popular enough, a decentralized service will continue to exist. With so much infrastructure owned by so many different people, no single person can “decide” to take it down.

      That said, WireMin is still a scam, please read my other comment for more info. Use whichever chat application works best for you.

      • Lantern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        You’ve basically ignored the question, and instead explained why decentralized services can’t be taken down.

        The answer is that there is no good reason to use this above Mastodon, as Mastodon is free and open source, is not a scam, alongside having a larger community. Signal is also an encrypted messenger operating on an open source protocol, and again does what Wiremin does but better.

        • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          WireMin markets itself as a decentralized service. The question was “why use this”, so I mentioned the pros of using decentralized services. I did not ignore the question. WireMin should not be used. Other (truly) decentralized protocols like Matrix, XMPP, or anything running on ActivityPub have benefits over services owned by companies like Signal or Telegram.

          However, most people are locked into a platform by their contacts, and their contacts choice of chat application. If most (or all) of your contacts are already on Signal, there’s no good reason to use anything else.