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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

www.disruptionist.com

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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

www.disruptionist.com

Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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  • realitista@lemm.ee
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    That’s quite a strong endorsement for Signal.

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works
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      The irony. I believe this tweet gave Signal a huge international boost.

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        Yeah, so much traffic it actually crashed the servers for a little bit

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      Meanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.

      Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

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        He 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.

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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.

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    Great, free publicity for Signal!

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      That’s what I thought when I first saw this

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    Damn I should use signal

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    Free Speech Absolutist 🤣

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      He meant “free speech abolitionist”, easy typo to make.

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    The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!

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    This is huge. But there’s such an onslaught of stuff coming it doesn’t get the attention needed

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    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

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    That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal

    “Our product is banned on twitter!”

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    He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.

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    Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.

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    So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.

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    It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.

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      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.

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        Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that

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          Canada going to be 52nd state–after Greendland 😆😆 (just kidding)

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            Would Mexico and Panama be the 53rd and 54th then?

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    Isn’t Signal still centralised? Why use it over Matrix? (genuine question)

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      You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.

      Signal is still very good though.

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        I think SimpleX is the currently the best chat app, with potential to be much more.

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      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.

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        There’s some people trying to run messaging services over TOR, no idea if much is gained from it

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