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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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

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

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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
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    🤦‍♂️

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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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    1000057228

  • TomMasz@lemmy.world
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    Free Speech Absolutist 🤣

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      Come on Elon, say it!

    • SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de
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      He meant “free speech abolitionist”, easy typo to make.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works
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    • jaybone@lemmy.world
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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.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Mike Pence still hanging around

        Man Trump supporters won’t quit huh?

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        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.

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          He was a conservative, not a MAGA supporter in my opinion. At the end of the day I have to see it as conservatives have ideals that do not align with mine, but MAGA is a group that believes that their ideals matter more than the people’s freedoms. They believe tearing apart a representative democracy is fine, so long as their ideology prospers at the moment, but it is VERY short sighted as their ideology isn’t why the leaders of MAGA is reforming it. Once they have reformed it the conservatives who supported MAGA will no longer have much say in anything, their votes won’t matter. The oligarchs will decide what size rations they/we deserve, and we all know those rations are shrinking and shrinking.

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            he was the religious conservative that Trump needed to win the first time, once that was done he was suppose to be wallpaper. His creepy behavior made him perfectly hypocritical with Trump. His god will judge him harshly.

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        just hanging around

    • maplebar@lemmy.world
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      Look at the date, lmao.

    • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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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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    Free speech!

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      Hey, that’s only for billionaires.

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      Absolutist… ish

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    Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.

    • ⛓️‍💥@sh.itjust.works
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      It’ll be easier on them to do so if they were all placed in the same room

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      I say it again and again, and I cant wrap my head around how nobody would agree or straight up kill for this belief.

      But why… Why wont people think of the SHAREHOLDERS!!! ;((((

      Devastating…

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    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.

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      There’s a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it

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        And when they come, oh boy do they roll over and give it to them.

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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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      They are flooding the zone… The real crime is actually buried while fake news running distrations with bullshit

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    He only cares about free speech when he can control what and whom it is flooded to. If you disagree with him, it will get automatically prioritized for the trash heap and chances are his critics will have worked it out of their system to bother complaining somewhere else, giving him a two for one. The russian troll factory strategy: https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

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    Damn I should use signal

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Absolutely

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    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.

    https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense

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      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.

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

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      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.

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      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)

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        Ooh thanks that makes more sense

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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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        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.

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          But yeah, that’s the thing, it doesn’t matter where it is based when there can’t be any information gleamed from it.

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            In terms of message security, but they could shut down the servers and disrupt the service for a while.

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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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      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.

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      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.

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        yup. signal devs/servers have NO access at all to anything about the conversations.

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    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.

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      No, they used Telegram because they’re idiots and don’t understand privacy.

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