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I highly recommend people use encrypted email and messaging apps for communications. Years ago, I worked on the Edward Snowden NSA document stories. As part of this I learned very intimately how damaging that surveillance can be. The ability to read someones messages is really the ability to have full power over their life.

Most people's respond to this by thinking that they have nothing to hide and are not that interesting. But no one really knows where their life may be headed in future, or where their children or others around them might head. Having a giant database of your information sitting out there allows that it might  one day be weaponized against you. There is a concept of "databases of ruin" which means that if someone has full access to all your messages they can cherrypick any image of you that they like, even if you feel its mostly false. I've seen that done in courtrooms.

Use Signal and use ProtonMail. They're easy, and it'll let you and those around you fight tyranny with one small step.

some fun facts:
- every email provider (even protonmail) can read your emails unless they’re encrypted using pgp (you probs aren’t using it)
- telegram chats, discord DMs and warpcast DMs are marketed as private but aren’t since they’re not e2ee.
- a reputable open-source e2ee messenger is the best way to ensure private communications stay private (outside of whispering sentences into your friend’s ear).

encrypted messaging for farcaster communities / https://comm.app/download

1to1 telegram chats can be encrypted
other than that I fully agree. Better use xmpp (with OMEMO) or probably more known: Signal for encrypted interactions.

Re Email: protonmail is not perfect, but still kilometers better than most services by default IMO