Since my old vendor, VC, went on permanent hiatus I am looking for new ones. At this point I used Lena’s stuff, otokonoko and VC.
I prefer EEN but am open to anything injectable.
I thought looking through reddit, but this community needs some activity. So yeah. Share your recent experiences.
there are Matrix chats for this, too - but yeah, in general the problem with driving things underground is that it can make it harder for people who need access to care to get it … still, on the other hand, having everything open has also resulted in loss of access by leaving DIY providers vulnerable to political actors
edit: even just having a rule that sources aren’t publicly named, but sent by DM or something might help?
Matrix encryption is a joke - https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac
And that’s before we get into the “security” of an encrypted chat room that anybody can join.
However https://www.privacyguides.org/en/pastebins/ an encrypted pastebin you send to people via DM would be useful?
Now I have to see if hrtcafe was archived anywhere…
not all Matrix spaces are open to anyone to join, and are we really going to say a private Matrix space with encryption is roughly equivalent to public cleartext on a forum?
(EDIT: It also looks like the encryption issues aren’t even relevant to the Matrix client I use.)
It just feels like there isn’t a shared concern here, am I right?
A lot of the concerns about matrix encryption are only relevant in big open rooms. In invite only chats it’s not an issue