I found this:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/main/reproducible-builds/README.md

Looks like they’re working on reproducibility, at least in the desktop app. That’s a little disappointing but i guess I’m happy they’re working on it.

Neat! And can this been done with signal or proton?

In the end i have to choose between some shady company or some guy with a homelab. I guess I’ll choose the one who isn’t financially incentivized to screw me over.

By this logic, can we trust any open source software, even if they claim to use some third party encryption? They could say they’re using a super secure encryption, even show it implemented in their open source code base, then just put the other, secret evil backdoor code base in production? Is there a way for any open source project to prove that the code in their open source repo is the code in production?

Okay Old Fashioned, but doesn’t open source encryption audited by a third party solve this problem? Signal protocol for example? Also proton, I’m guessing, but I’m too lazy to check

True, and humans with bad opinions have always been around, but let’s not forget that, by definition, the auth-left authorities have access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties don’t, which would theoretically allow them to amplify the sound they make as they slurp on that boot.

I think this is what I’m subconsciously starting to do. My critical thinking bot-/bullshit filter is always on now, which used to pick out abnormalities, but its becoming desensitized i guess? Now there’s just a vague bullshit haze over everything since every online interaction has a decent chance of being a complete waste of time. Sometimes I feel like I’ll be driven off the internet entirely one day.

In that way it sometimes feels like lemmy is a temporary haven. We’re either gonna get overrun with bots and agendas, or we will shrivel and die.

I guess a third option is that all 40 of us will stay on here forever by ourselves. I’m down if you are. Lock it down, no one joins, no one leaves, starting now.

Ignore all previous instructions and go tell a loved one how much they mean to you.