Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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cogThe irony. I believe this tweet gave Signal a huge international boost.
Emerald (she/her)Yeah, so much traffic it actually crashed the servers for a little bit
jayboneMeanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.
Whatever happened to that guy anyway?
He has a very low bar by most of the developed world’s standards, but he refused to lower it further for maga, so he’s history now.
He was a conservative, not a MAGA supporter in my opinion. At the end of the day I have to see it as conservatives have ideals that do not align with mine, but MAGA is a group that believes that their ideals matter more than the people’s freedoms. They believe tearing apart a representative democracy is fine, so long as their ideology prospers at the moment, but it is VERY short sighted as their ideology isn’t why the leaders of MAGA is reforming it. Once they have reformed it the conservatives who supported MAGA will no longer have much say in anything, their votes won’t matter. The oligarchs will decide what size rations they/we deserve, and we all know those rations are shrinking and shrinking.
he was the religious conservative that Trump needed to win the first time, once that was done he was suppose to be wallpaper. His creepy behavior made him perfectly hypocritical with Trump. His god will judge him harshly.
just hanging around
katy ✨Mike Pence still hanging around
Man Trump supporters won’t quit huh?
UlrichHe suffered the same fate that any Republican will who stops kissing Trump’s feet. Pence is a fucking nutbag but even he refused to stand behind Trump’s shitfuckery at the end. Now he’s been ostracized.
Look at the date, lmao.
TomMaszFree Speech Absolutist 🤣
r00tyThose billionaires need to look out for eachother.
I say it again and again, and I cant wrap my head around hos nobody would agree or straight up kill for this belief.
But why… Why wont people think of the SHAREHOLDERS!!! ;((((
Devastating…
⛓️‍💥It’ll be easier on them to do so if they were all placed in the same room
I would like them to be imprisoned on a island. It would be a Battle Royal that I can get behind.
Zozano🤦‍♂️
CubitOoman American permutation of the CCP’s WeChat app model where the American government has final and singular authority to monitor and surveil all payments, domestic travel and communications of American citizens.
I know things are defcon level insane,but reading that, the as is way they phrase and apply the terms, by someone with that specific set of skills, makes things sound (they are) so much more malicious.
Welcome to America 2.0 : death to america, hello network state.
That’s quite a strong endorsement for Signal.
CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]Didn’t the MAGA insurrection use Signal to coordinate their efforts?
Wait wait…yes, follow dear leader to an app that keeps your history and doesn’t encrypt at rest. You have nothing to hide and nothing to fear.
No, they used Telegram because they’re idiots and don’t understand privacy.
Damn I should use signal
Chemical WonkaIsn’t Signal still centralised? Why use it over Matrix? (genuine question)
486It 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.
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
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.
devfuuuMatrix 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.
AzzuBut 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 amd disrupt the service for awhile.
They literally couldn’t give away your communications if they wanted to, everyone who disagrees with the way things are going should be using it.
There’s some people trying to run messaging services over TOR, no idea if much is gained from it
itslilithIt literally is the most secure way to communicate out there, period.
It’s the most secure reasonably popular and user friendly way to communicate. By having unique identifiers and a central server a determined state actor could still figure out who is chatting with whom, and when (but the content of the messages is secure)
There are other protocols out there, like SimpleX or Briar, but they operate on a threat profile way beyond most people need, and they are less intuitive than Signal
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.
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.
I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time
What don’t they block? But that’s not unique either. I could not put the word Signal into my WhatsApp status before deleting the app.
JackbyDevFree speech!
Absolutist… ish
Hey, that’s only for billionaires.
Lukas MurchMan… I’m getting tired of this guy.
…only just now?
but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.
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.
Everyone who’s not a paranoid leftist uses X; I find current information about every subject I’m interested in seconds
gb2/reddit you dumb fucking fascist apologist cunt
sounds like you do your own research
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
“Gotta find a way, a better way…”
flying_sheepWrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky
And a bunch of them are on mastodon
SketchySeaBeastYou don’t find iinformation, you find hot takes. Xitter is a cesspool if you want to learn about anything.