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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (themarkup.org)

submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Simple steps to take before hitting the streets

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Those components are not really meant for self-hosting, its open to be looked at. You would need to patch out the SIM requirement, point the hardcoded server/clients elsewhere, find some way to sideload modified clients to those using iOS lol, & it’s not federated so you would need a separate app for just this task. At this rate you are 100% better off using a choosing systems where server & clients are actually built with this in mind… Signal’s chat features are not novel