Semperverus

I made this mistake too when I figured out I had ADHD. I had a shiny new hammer to fix all my problems with, and EVERYTHING was a nail. And I really liked showing off my shiny new hammer to explain why I was trying to hammer all these nails.

People didn’t like it very much. I was being obnoxious. I know I was. I knew it at the time too, but still couldn’t stop myself.

Our culture right now does not favor talking about mental health in any capacity, and I think part of that comes from shame for some people (“oh no, what if I’m similar and have it?”), and for other people its just a frustrating change in routine (“oh God am I going to have to listen to this every day from now on, and change how I do things to boot?”) - it becomes extra burden in their eyes.

The trick is masking. It’s always masking. It sucks that we have to mask, but masking unfortunately works. Don’t talk about your issues, or if you do only do it once with any particular group of people.

On the flipside, it’s still important to be yourself. Find a good group who you don’t have to wear the mask around and spend as much time with them as you can, so you can deal with the times you do.

I just saw your reply to me and was about to say the same thing, but they worded it perfectly. And I did mention metadata as a key point in my original post.

Yes, it is possible!

I hope you have some solid soldering and hot air workstation skills, but assuming you do then yes its 100% possible.

I do not recommend it.

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EVERYTHING in Signal follows an encryption or tokenization chain. Not like crypto coins but real actual chain-of-custody type encryption workflows. It uses elliptical curve cryptography where the key for each message moves forward along an elliptic curve, which are excessively difficult to guess the factors for once it is selected if you are not the key holder. This means that even if someone cracks the key for a single message you sent, they are going to have to crack the key for every other message still as each one is different. Even the metadata is encrypted by the user’s keys.

Signal doesnt have usernames in the traditional sense. It’s phone number+6 digit pin hashed into an encrypted signature.

The signal company can’t see anything you do besides account create date and last login date, even if they wanted to due to how their platform is set up.

Meanwhile, Matrix literally clones the metadata between servers when a user connects to and starts talking to users on another server, in plaintext (maybe encrypted at rest but not E2EE).

Common sense isn’t just “not so common,” it is a fundamentally broken concept at its core and a crutch that people use to hoist themselves above others they feel they are better than.