Of the Air (cele/celes)

pronouns: cele/celes

Plural. Trans{gender and species}.

We don’t identify as human, thank you!

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Cake day: July 20th, 2024

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  • because it requires a phone number

    Yes, fair criticism.

    They’re based in the USA

    Sure, but the way the protocol and servers work there is no metadata etc unlike Matrix and XMPP, so nothing to hand over.

    contain proprietary blobs

    This is probably true of the version from the play store, desktop and maybe iOS version. However the apk from Signal’s site on android might not, I am unsure.

    Molly is the fork I’d recommend instead

    Sadly Molly is only available on Android, so that leaves out iOS and Desktop users.



  • We would not recommend Matrix, there are both many fascists on it and they didn’t fix a security vulnerability with their encryption for years that they knew about. Also if you must use Matrix don’t use fluffychat as it doesn’t have the encryption fix yet.

    Signal is a better choice for privacy as everything is encrypted by default and it has both the audits and legal testing to prove its safety and code. Something which no other messenger we have seen can honestly say.






  • We think the primary problem is that transmasc people are not often encouraged to get into tech and it feels unsafe for them because it is.

    Tech is dominated mostly by cis men and trans femmes. Cis women and trans masc people are excluded and not encouraged towards such spaces or interests most of the time, partially because the structures are not built for them, partially because of the rampant misogyny that exists and partially because people who tend to run tech but especially open source tend to be very ideological and don’t like to consider alternative views.

    Basically what we are saying is that in order to have more transmasc people here, a lot of stuff in these spaces and society needs to change.