Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
The irony. I believe this tweet gave Signal a huge international boost.
Yeah, so much traffic it actually crashed the servers for a little bit
Meanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.
Whatever happened to that guy anyway?
Mike Pence still hanging around
Man Trump supporters won't quit huh?
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.
just hanging around
Look at the date, lmao.
Damn I should use signal
Absolutely
Free Speech Absolutist 🤣
He meant "free speech abolitionist", easy typo to make.
Great, free publicity for Signal!
That's what I thought when I first saw this
He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.
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.
but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.
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.
Oddly, many reporters still do
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.
That's still half the US population though.
Everyone who’s not a paranoid leftist uses X; I find current information about every subject I’m interested in seconds
sounds like you do your own research
You sound like you're about to lose your farm
You don't find iinformation, you find hot takes. Xitter is a cesspool if you want to learn about anything.
You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons "odd hand gesture" in your bedroom at night.
Lol, Alex Jones style research. Using memes and headlines as news.
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
That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal
"Our product is banned on twitter!"
Man... I'm getting tired of this guy.
...only just now?
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.
Free speech!
Hey, that's only for billionaires.
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
Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.
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..
It'll be easier on them to do so if they were all placed in the same room
I would like them to be imprisoned on a island. It would be a Battle Royal that I can get behind.
So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.
This is huge. But there's such an onslaught of stuff coming it doesn't get the attention needed
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
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.
The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!
It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.
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.
Isn't Signal still centralised? Why use it over Matrix? (genuine question)
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.
yup. signal devs/servers have NO access at all to anything about the conversations.
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)
Ooh thanks that makes more sense
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.
It literally is the most secure way to communicate out there, period.
It's the most secure reasonably popular and user friendly way to communicate. By having unique identifiers and a central server a determined state actor could still figure out who is chatting with whom, and when (but the content of the messages is secure)
There are other protocols out there, like SimpleX or Briar, but they operate on a threat profile way beyond most people need, and they are less intuitive than Signal
There's some people trying to run messaging services over TOR, no idea if much is gained from it
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.
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.
Now if more is Americans would listen and move this platform.
I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time
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.
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
And yet, sadly, there are only like 5 people in my entire contact list who use it.
What a shame...
should be a lesson to those excited about iphones using starlink
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.
🤦♂️
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.
There's a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it
And when they come, oh boy do they roll over and give it to them.