RT @torproject
Help Iranians stay connected!
The internet access has been heavily disrupted across the country. Please consider running a Tor Snowflake proxy - it's a quick and meaningful way to help Iranians stay online. #KeepItOn
Please note that the #snowflake browser addon seems more efficient in #iran.
https://snowflake.torproject.org
Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social
"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)
More 🚩: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.
Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.
(via @mastodonmigration)
'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
Y’all. Mastodon has a new Terms of Service that’s problematic. I’m hoping and cautiously optimistic that they’ll sort it out. But for now it’s not good.
@mcc wrote one of the best GitHub issues I’ve ever seen. It explains everything in great detail. Check it out if you want a full picture on the situation.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
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(UPDATE: our crowd-sourced concern has them pausing on this. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821)
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
The brutal, daily bombing and murder of innocent civilians, in #Palestine and #Ukraine are signs of a collapsing rules-based world order.
It is not collapsing because of #Russia or #Israel, but because the west, who was supposed to uphold it, chose not to for the simple reason that it was inconvenient.
Today Ukrainians and Palestinians are suffering the consequences. Tomorrow it will be Europeans and Americans.
If you don't stop evil in it's infancy you might not be able to when it grows.
Afghan man gets a VISA to the US after assisting the US army in Afghanistan as an interpreter.
Now, without a warrant, Trump's ICE goons have arrested him and put him in detention to get him deported to meet their deportation quotas.
That is your reward for being an ally of the US.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/afghan-ally-detained-by-ice-immigration-court/
An Afghan man who worked alongside U.S. troops against the Taliban was detained by ICE officers after he attended a mandatory immigration hearing in San Diego.
Help Iranians stay connected!
The internet access has been heavily disrupted across the country. Please consider running a Tor Snowflake proxy - it's a quick and meaningful way to help Iranians stay online. #KeepItOn
Please note that the #snowflake browser addon seems more efficient in #iran.
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
"But if my threat model is Mossad, Signal could be forced to-"
No. Stop it. Your threat model isn't fucking Mossad--who could probably pwn half of the entire XMPP ecosystem with a single libxml2 zero-day. (Also maybe Matrix?)
"But my self-hosting"
Irrelevant.
"But jurisdiction"
You think Swiss privacy law will stop the CIA from doing another CryptoAG?
They probably have 10-20 of those floating around already. Private "no log" VPNs are an attractive target for that.
Want to know more about Signal's cryptography?
https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/
None of the alternatives people recommend even come close to the standard they set.
Miguel Afonso Caetano
Fedi.Tips
Meredith Whittaker
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO
Randahl Fink
Gus
Soatok Dreamseeker