According to the threads I found privacy guides:

• It mostly just doesn’t work well.

• It hasn’t been independently audited

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/add-jami/20052

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/why-is-jami-not-listed-in-pg/12500

checks current social media landscape

Yep, apparently!

Honestly I don’t know what the issue is on a technical level, I just know they are not encrypted and won’t be for the foreseeable future.

Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.

The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if you need privacy, you can just…not. Once you break the addiction, you realize how unnecessary it all was.

Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.

The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if nobody signs up, you can just keep in contact with your friend and family using signal.

We don’t need to match a billionaire. We just need to finance lawyers and advocates to work on our behalf.

As bad as things are now, think about how much quicker things would devolve without organizations like planned parenthood, the EFF, and the ACLU.

Ok, so serious answer for our friends who don’t live in places without an active culture of protest:

1. Vote. No, really. If people actually fucking voted, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

2. Give money to advocacy organizations

3. Give your time and money to mutual aid organizations

4. Read the news (not just on lemmy either)

5. CALL your congresspeople. Emails and letters are better than nothing, but do not have the same impact.

6. Try to get your friends to do #1-5

They are heavily entrenched in Texas. They will have to badly piss off most people enough that they all go vote in the same cycle.

Our state government has actually been getting much more radical over the past few years, because the only people who vote are conservative radicals, because everyone else is either apathetic or aware that their vote won’t matter unless millions of people suddenly wake up tomorrow and vote.