• Ulrich
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    266 months ago

    Here are some workarounds:

    1. Don’t use Xitter
    2. Use your phone number
    3. Use a URL shortener

    He’s not doing anything except getting more bad press for himself.

  • @[email protected]
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    86 months ago

    So what’s the opinion here between Signal and SimpleX?

    Signal gets all the attention, and seems more approachable but ties to a phone number which can be a big deal.

    SimpleX ties to nothing but I could absolutely see people I know fucking it up and wondering where their “account” went.

    So, Signal as an common man’s adoptable compromise and SimpleX to nerd out with full “opsec” and disposability? That about right?

    • Illecors
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      26 months ago

      I’m trying to use simplex, mainly for the instance’s chat. 2 things to say:

      • notifications work perfectly even without play store
      • every device has a separate account - I can’t reuse the same one. Not the end of the world, but it’s really annoying
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        From the looks of it, the variety of ways you can purposefully or accidentally destroy your local database, and the strict limits on accessing your profile, really gives me the feeling SimpleX is intended to be extremely disposable and deniable.

        After playing with it I just don’t see it being used for anything expected to be convenient or ongoing. Regarding the one device per account thing, I think the whole point is you just protect your one app, nobody is sneaking in your laptop or tablet, no remote leaks possible from a sync engine. On iOS you can link to a desktop app, but your phone must remain not just on, but in the app and on the pair screen. One twitch out, PC disconnects.

        Feels like something for journalists, whistleblowers, protesters, and all the bad ones. It’s a burner app for your burner phone.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      Signal has been under way more scrutiny than SimpleX. In both academic papers and security audits.

  • dsilverz
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    @cyrano The “problem” (actually, the feature) with those censorship algorithms is that they rely a lot on the “exact contents” of the message (“Scunthorpe Problem”), so X is probably programmed to detect the Signal’s domain and block due to the presence of such link (similar to how Facebook was/is blocking links to the largest PixelFed instances, and then they also decided to block links to DistroWatch and official websites from various Linux distros), so it’s not programmed (yet) to censor just the “hexadecimal/base64/whatever” portion of the link alone. And there’s where Tox could shine: a handle is literally a hexadecimal sequence, without Tox’s domains, without URI Schemas, just a bunch of digits and letters from A to F.

    I don’t know why Tox isn’t mentioned as a “instant messaging platform for whistleblowers”: it got Onion (Tor) tunneling possibility (as well as tunneling it through I2P outproxies because it actually accepts any kind of SOCKS5 proxy), it’s registration-less (even Matrix needs registration) so it’s effectively anonymous IMO.

    SimpleX seems to be that, too, although I didn’t have the opportunity to use it more than I used Tox. But from the little I’ve used it, it’s similar to Signal in the sense that it’s a link (and a large link) and not simply a hash/hex sequence.

    • @[email protected]
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      Tox is nice. My favourite flavour is qTox.

      The typical pattern over here: if someone uses Signal, you guess they’re some military type (wants things to be secure, doesn’t care much about anonymity, wants things to work one way and simply).

      If someone uses Tox, you guess they’re some hacker / anarchist type (wants things to be secure, but also anonymizable, wants things to be flexible, even if it can backfire).

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      Most social media should be public domain or at least have standardised open APIs, it’s the logical way to go for a free society with healthy governments and institutions. As it is right now it’s like private companies owning the streets…

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      Honestly I feel all news and social messenging services would be better served if they were forced to be public owned.

  • Kokesh
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    186 months ago

    I’ve blocked Twitter on my Adguard Home DNS already last year, so no “X” shit in my house/our mobile devices anywhere.

  • @[email protected]
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    286 months ago

    It’s not easy to leave WhatsApp. I’ve transitioned to Signal a month ago and lost contact with a lot of people. My friends and family think I’m going crazy for attitudes like these. “You can’t change the world on your own”… like that was the plan 😅

    Thanks Musk, that was the motivation I needed to keep away from WhatsApp.

    Obviously not a X/Twitter user, I’m not a fkin idiot.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      It’s a slow and constant process of onboarding people to signal. I managed to onboard my local gaming group into using Signal after Trump got elected.

    • HEXN3T
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      136 months ago

      You can’t change the world if you don’t try at all. What a braindead take…

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      I managed to get my parents and brother to switch to signal two years ago, never switched back and it’s always working, very easy to use. I’m pretty sure whatsapp will enshitify at such a rate that signal will absorb the users.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      Keep on pushing, I’ve been transitioning to Signal and now I’ve got a handful of good friends on there. People are realising what’s going on but be mindful that a lot of people have businesses and work that depend on it… They are hostages. But if everyone changes gradually it will reach a point they won’t be anymore. Keep on preaching brother!

  • @[email protected]
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    356 months ago

    Been using Signal for years. Love it.

    Makes sense than an anti-free speech dipshit like Elon Musk would oppose it.

  • Cyborganism
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    646 months ago

    They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.

  • @[email protected]
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    2166 months ago

    You know, for a free speech supporter, he sure seems to hate it when people speak freely.