Official Whonix ™ Online Profiles

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Whonix ™ Social Media Profiles[edit]

There are a few Whonix ™ social media profiles, but users should not rely on them for getting up-to-date Whonix ™ News. Instead, refer to Follow Whonix ™ Developments for better sources of Whonix-related news. Social media profiles are not suitable for contacting Whonix ™ developers; see Contact for relevant contact information.

If users can safely share Whonix ™ information or positive experiences using the platform with others, feel free to follow or like these profiles below with an anonymous account as a small way to Contribute.

Whonix ™ Forums Profiles[edit]

Developer Accounts[edit]

See Developer Accountsarchive.org.

Project Accounts[edit]

Admins[edit]

The personal opinions of moderators The Web Archive or contributors to the Whonix ™ project do not represent the project as a whole.

Selection of Platforms[edit]

Account Creation[edit]

An account will most likely be created, when...

Criteria:

  • The platform must be somewhat popular or show potential to become somewhat popular. [1]
  • Easy sign-up.
  • Legal.

Non-Criteria:

  • Networks respects privacy of its users.
  • Tor users are permitted to sign-up.
  • Anonymous sign-up permitted.
  • Other ethical or political considerations.
  • In an ideal world, "perfectly moral" decisions would be made but that is deemed impractical. For elaboration, see unsubstantiated conclusions. [2]

Reasons for account creation:

  • Reserving account name.
  • Censorship resistance.
  • Escaping (potential) shadow banning.
  • Decentralization, diversity.
  • Allowing users to choose their favorite network.

Non-Reasons for account creation:

  • Endorsing that network.

Criteria for which Social Networks accounts are most actively used[edit]

Amended October 24, 2020.

  • Usability. The easier it is to (auto) post to these networks, i.e. post 1 time using an (external or third party such as IFTT) tool and then spread to multiple networks, the more likely this network is going to see more posting activity.
  • Depends on contributor time and availability to mirror posts to these networks.

Criteria for Footer Inclusion[edit]

Amended October 24, 2020.

Criteria for (wiki) footer inclusion:

  • platforms self-hosted by Whonix ™ (discourse forums, newsletter, rss)
  • third party platforms:
    • popular, generally active or followed by our user community regardless of whether based on Freedom Software or non-freedom software
    • promising platforms that have the potential to grow or are in an expansion phase
  • experimentation
  • technical merit (decentralized and/or censorship-resistant)

End-to-End Encrypted Public Chat[edit]

Unavailable.

  • blocker: Whonix ™ matrix chat is bridged to Whonix ™ telegram chat. Meaning, any messages on matrix and telegram gets relays. (As long as the free relay bot service is functional.) Matrix channel encryption is incompatible with relaying to Telegram.
  • Other reasons:
    • It's a public chat anyhow. Anyone can join telegram and view that chat history.
    • No clear threat model.
    • Lower maintenance effort.

See Also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ This is a somewhat arbitrary determination and not too much time is spent on research.
  2. ↑ In that case most major networks could not be used because most fail in one regard or another. Therefore no such attempt is being made.
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