Using a bridge can sidestep telemetry that comes with official apps/clients. The services will also see a ping from your bridge server rather than, say, a direct ping from your mobile device. Make sure to self-host if you want to avoid introducing new parties to your communication stack.
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If you host the bridges yourself, it makes no difference to privacy.
It's simply convenient to have all chats in one place 🤷🏼♀️
matrix bridging decrypts the messages aswell, so even less privacy
Wrong, bridges expand privacy, used for attack, not defence.
https://lemmy.world/comment/19823480,
WhatsApp is a scam. It never secures our messages. We do not control it, anti-libre software.
You would be exposed on both sides, instead of just one or the other.
Bridges help us break out of privacy raping apps by destroying their network effect.
But an auto-reply, only if written right, always works best.
https://lemmy.world/post/21620691
We do not control WhatsApp. It fails to include a libre software license text file, anti-libre software.
Escaping these traps is how we take us our privacy back.
It isn't really opposing the network effect, because you enable who is on the platform you want to avoid to keep using it and staying in touch with you, so they have no incentive to try your platform, if most of their contacts remain on theirs.
As you said, an automatic response is a thing that would make a difference, there is something at stake and the contact either tries your proposed platform or sees you as too extreme and drops the conversation altogether
You've already left. So, you don't need a bridge.
It's for them, not you.
It lets them switch gradually, until the bridge is no longer needed.
I'm not sure I follow, with "them" who are you referring to?
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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