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They fear open source software because it is one of the only thing that threatens their technofascist hegemony.
This only further proves that we are investing in platforms that are chipping away at them.
Man… I’m getting tired of this guy.
…only just now?
Now if more is Americans would listen and move this platform.
Free speech absolution guy who promotrd Signal not that long ago, only likes free speech (and most likely only signal) for me but not for thee
That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal
“Our product is banned on twitter!”
Free Speech Absolutist 🤣
He meant “free speech abolitionist”, easy typo to make.
He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.
but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.
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Oh thats going to be bad news when musk sells them all that info
Everyone who’s not a paranoid leftist uses X; I find current information about every subject I’m interested in seconds
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
“Gotta find a way, a better way…”
You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons “odd hand gesture” in your bedroom at night.
Lol, Alex Jones style research. Using memes and headlines as news.
You don’t find iinformation, you find hot takes. Xitter is a cesspool if you want to learn about anything.
Wrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky
And a bunch of them are on mastodon
sounds like you do your own research
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You sound like you’re about to lose your farm
Oddly, many reporters still do
Joking for real, or seriously for real? The vast majority of people that used twitter are still using twitter. This applies to users in the united states, of course, but it especially applies to those in the entire rest of the world, where elon’s shit largely hasn’t crossed the culture/language barrier, or doesn’t matter to people.
That’s still half the US population though.
The people who unfortunately have to get government updates from the place. After Facebook became a pain, Twitter became (for a while, when you didn’t have to log in) a pretty decent way to update people on things like roadworks or weather warnings.
Isn’t Signal still centralised? Why use it over Matrix? (genuine question)
Matrix leaks a ton of metadata and for normal users the clients are still very much in the sucking phase. Signal being centralized changes nothing about its security when the freaking servers can’t see anything about the messages. It literally is the most secure way to communicate out there, period.
Thanks; is leaking metadata just a consequence of the decentralized nature or is it something specific to how Matrix was made? Maybe I’ll try out Signal (I’ve been looking for some alternatives) but I don’t like how they’re based in America/5 Eyes, even if they are encrypted.
Signal literally couldn’t give away your communications if they wanted to, everyone who disagrees with the way things are going should be using it.
But yeah, that’s the thing, it doesn’t matter where it is based when there can’t be any information gleamed from it.
In terms of message security, but they could shut down the servers and disrupt the service for a while.
There’s some people trying to run messaging services over TOR, no idea if much is gained from it
You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.
Signal is still very good though.
I think SimpleX is the currently the best chat app, with potential to be much more.
It is, but Signal and Matrix aren’t really all that similar. Matrix’s privacy is pretty atrocious. It stores tons of meta data about users all over the place. That’s the exact opposite of what Signal does.
yup. signal devs/servers have NO access at all to anything about the conversations.
Because its a more user friendly experience. Your grandma can use it with no hustle. Matrix is more complicated UX and also much slower and buggier (at least if you use Element and matrix.org). Ive actually started to prefer Delta Chat over Matrix.
Signal is person to person messaging with groups on the side (ala WhatsApp)
Matrix is groups with person to person on the side (ala Discord)
Ooh thanks that makes more sense
It’s more private and secure, and it’s easier to use/recommend.
Matrix stores all metadata, and most all of it makes it’s way to the matrix.org (default instance) server and is subject to dragnet subpoenas. It’s also complicated to use, incredibly slow, and resource-intensive.
Damn I should use signal
Absolutely
I hope Signal doesnt end up getting outlawed in the US. Elon musk seems to be against it now, and he has a lot of power these days.
There’s a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it
And when they come, oh boy do they roll over and give it to them.
most likely a spam detection issue.
I wish europe banned anhy of the american social media, my applications would finally have a chance. But europeans won’t do that because they are huge pussies when it comes to americans. Unlike the chinese who created a whole internet universe for themselves, and they don’t even bother translating it to english anymore
I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time
It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.
The first step would probably be to try and revoke their tax exempt non profit status. But I’m confident the Signal Foundation would at that point just move to another jurisdiction. Maybe Canada, Switzerland or something like that.
Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that
Canada going to be 52nd state–after Greendland 😆😆 (just kidding)
Would Mexico and Panama be the 53rd and 54th then?
