Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• badmin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Signal has been questionable for years. The way it’s been pushed hardly, and how Moxie is emeritus, while much more questionable people are in control, doesn’t fill one with confidence, and does ring some alarm bells. The relative proximity to some in the US establishment should be enough to do that. And the way some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as “Russian Propaganda” and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.

  Frankly, I would trust something like Wire more than Signal. And there are other options too.

  Ideally, something with good security/privacy and is fully P2P would become popular. But those apps/networks never make it mainstream, which is unfortunate.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There is a lot in here that I don’t understand.

    1. What’s wrong with Moxie? You mean it’s weird he’s an emeritus and not part of the board?
    2. What’s “much more questionable” about the other people? From the descriptions on that page they all seem like standup people.
    3. Could you explain the “relative proximity to some in the US establishment” bit? That was too vague for me to grasp.
    4. “some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as ‘Russian Propaganda’ and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.” — Who has done this, you mean? And why exactly is it “curious”?

    Honestly, there was nothing at all in there that I understood, due to how vague it all was. I would appreciate it if you or someone could fill me in here, because it’s important to know who’s driving this thing, and if the platform can be trusted. I just want to not go by some vague rumors before I make up my mind.

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  • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    louder for the people in the back.

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• Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What legislation would do that? Would they want access to your messages or something?

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They want to make crime fighting more accessible to the police… 💀

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