Btw, I found WireMin is kind of interesting.
It’s an dapp, actually a decentralized social network, but more than Nostr, that’s how they described themselves. https://www.alchemy.com/dapps/wiremin
Pretty wild to see misleading accusations from a proprietary Bittorrent-but-not-really social media network.
It’s also violating the GPLv3 license by bundling mxlibs. Maybe the developers behind WireMin will give you the source code to their application if you email them, but I’m not so sure they care about things like licenses, going by the Derek Bailey clip they’ve embedded into the application as a notification sound. Using Microsoft Maps for showing location data (rather than an open project like a self-hosted Open Street Maps server) also doesn’t really match their privacy goals. The San Fransisco typeface they package with their app is also clearly a violation of Apple’s license.
I can’t be bothered to check their encryption, but WireMin doesn’t seem all that great.
Whew! Good spot, that’s not cool at all.
Also, as soon as I saw
CONTACT US
Email:baron.swartz01@gmail.com
I knew that something was up, how can you flaunt your care for privacy, decentralization and all that and then use Gmail as your contact??
Like, at least use your own domain name with underlying Gmail if you want to mislead us effectivelyIt’s this type of stuff that makes me think this is a side project for a college student or something. It’s the mix between “decent ideas” and “shoddy execution” that I’ve seen with many of these projects. The Beehive social network (the Twitter clone that forgot to implement authentication in its backend APIs) also comes to mind.
It’s the mix between “decent ideas” and “shoddy execution”
Agreed, it kind of unjustly vilifies the concepts to which they’re attached too, which is a shame.
The Beehive social network
Ah, never heard that one, know where can I read on it?
Misremembered the name, I meant this one: https://www.hivesocial.app/
Here’s a recap of the story: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data/
If you try it out, be warned that your full date of birth was still sent along your profile information a month or two ago, so better lie about that, just in case.
Thanks!
That’s really bad, well, wasn’t intending to try it out anyway XD
Crypto is cringe. Federation >>>>> dapps.
I was gonna say I never heard of “dapp” before. Searched it and only crypto sites came up. I don’t even think I like the phrase “decentralized app” as it is being used.
The concept in itself doesn’t sound too bad, it’s just that a multitude of the actual implementations don’t look very well meaning at all, just like NFTs. Somehow crypocurrency is able to attract both the best mathematicians and the worst scum looking to make a quick buck
You shouldn’t expect any privacy when using chrome, or any google product for that matter.
I would also say anything that isn’t FOSS. Big tech and car companies to name a few.
This is a bit too clever.
Chrome is not selling your browsing history! It is creating profiles based on your interests from your browsing history which advertisers can then use to better target you.
I just joined Lemmy, and I never expected to see people discussing WireMin here. Considering its super small user base, hardly no one I know uses it. So I usually use it as a corner to store all my dark moods since it is secure and complete anonymous.
The integration of ChatGPT on WireMin is somehow helpful, as when I use ChatGPT on WireMin anonymously, OpenAI will never link the person who ask those stupid questions with the real me.
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It’s just a chat app, no?
A privacy focused social media? Cuz if ‘just a chat app’, SimpleX or Session probably meets more
But I mean, wiremin doesn’t actually appear to connect you to strangers. It seems like it just sets up private chat rooms from its description. I don’t see anyway that it publicly posts in a fashion that would appear on all WireMin users apps.
Edit: it only seems to connect you to people you explicitly provide. So hence “chat app”.
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