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Not just flock. My city recently backed away from flock under voter pressure… only to start seeking a contract with Motorola Vigilant. Which does all the same nasty shit.

Not really. They’re still harvesting/monitoring everyone’s chats and are moving forward with age verification, to include behavior-based age verification. They’re just hiring a different scummy vendor to handle the age checks.

Currently hosting a couple of zulip instances for communities that had been on discord. I really like the way it handles topics/threading and they make hosting a breeze. I reported in an upgrade recently and it was < 30 minutes between me reporting it and getting code to solve my issue pushed to the repos. Wild.

10/10 recommend if voice/video are not a focus.

A major remaining issue with Meshtastic is the NodeID being tied to the device MAC. This means that even if you can’t decrypt comms, it is trivial to track a device and thereby a user across geographical areas even with factory resets. This is solvable at a software level and iirc there’s a PR to address this vulnerability, but it has not been merged.