That’s quite a strong endorsement for Signal.
Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
Submitted 2 months ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal
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overload@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Damn I should use signal
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Absolutely
TomMasz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Free Speech Absolutist 🤣
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Great, free publicity for Signal!
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s what I thought when I first saw this
davel@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.
giacomo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.
Rob1992@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Oddly, many reporters still do
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
[deleted]Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh thats going to be bad news when musk sells them all that info
allgreentome@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Everyone who’s not a paranoid leftist uses X; I find current information about every subject I’m interested in seconds
giacomo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
sounds like you do your own research
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
gb2/reddit you dumb fucking fascist apologist cunt
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You don’t find iinformation, you find hot takes. Xitter is a cesspool if you want to learn about anything.
Ougie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like you’re about to lose your farm
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Wrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
maplebar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons “odd hand gesture” in your bedroom at night.
Hyggyldy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Lol, Alex Jones style research. Using memes and headlines as news.
Huschke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s still half the US population though.
mke@programming.dev 2 months ago
Joking for real, or seriously for real? The vast majority of people that used twitter are still using twitter. This applies to users in the united states, of course, but it especially applies to those in the entire rest of the world, where elon’s shit largely hasn’t crossed the culture/language barrier, or doesn’t matter to people.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, they used Telegram because they’re idiots and don’t understand privacy.
maplebar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They fear open source software because it is the only thing that threatens their techfascist hegemony.
This only further proves that we are investing in platforms that are chipping away at them.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Man… I’m getting tired of this guy.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
…only just now?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Free speech!
theherk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Absolutist… ish
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Hey, that’s only for billionaires.
Baguette@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal
“Our product is banned on twitter!”
resetbypeer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Free speech absolution guy who promotrd Signal not that long ago, only likes free speech (and most likely only signal) for me but not for thee
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 months ago
an 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.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 months ago
This is huge. But there’s such an onslaught of stuff coming it doesn’t get the attention needed
liquidthex@reddthat.com 2 months ago
So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.
BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 2 months ago
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Isn’t Signal still centralised? Why use it over Matrix? (genuine question)
486@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It 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.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
yup. signal devs/servers have NO access at all to anything about the conversations.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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)
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ooh thanks that makes more sense
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 months ago
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.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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.
Rob1992@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s some people trying to run messaging services over TOR, no idea if much is gained from it
sith@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 2 months ago
You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.
Signal is still very good though.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
I think SimpleX is the currently the best chat app, with potential to be much more.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!
Imhotep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time
firepenny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now if more is Americans would listen and move this platform.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Free speech readings, increasing! Liberty levels, maximum! Freedom metrics, exploding!!! IMA BUSSSS!!!..oh nvm, the techno-fascist douchebag was a lying hypocrite the whole time.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
should be a lesson to those excited about iphones using starlink
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🤦♂️
frequenttimetraveler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
And yet, sadly, there are only like 5 people in my entire contact list who use it.
What a shame…
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
Dellpeanuts5@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I hope Signal doesnt end up getting outlawed in the US. Elon musk seems to be against it now, and he has a lot of power these days.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
There’s a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 2 months ago
And when they come, oh boy do they roll over and give it to them.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The irony. I believe this tweet gave Signal a huge international boost.
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, so much traffic it actually crashed the servers for a little bit
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Meanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.
Whatever happened to that guy anyway?
iowagneiss@midwest.social 2 months ago
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.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Man Trump supporters won’t quit huh?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
just hanging around
maplebar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look at the date, lmao.