Sounds like that censorship conservatives are all up in a row about… Oh not anymore fancy that
Free speech but no Signal? Red flag.
You know, for a free speech supporter, he sure seems to hate it when people speak freely.
hes quite the selective speech supporter
He wants to speak freely, but he doesn’t want to afford anyone else the same right.
It’s not an uncommon stance, but it’s a hypocritical one.
And when you say freely you mean hate.
In his case.
Not really true. His supporters are allowed to speak freely as well.
He absolutely wants to support the speech he agrees with. The rest can get fucked.
“Free speech absolutist”*
The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.
I’ve blocked Twitter on my Adguard Home DNS already last year, so no “X” shit in my house/our mobile devices anywhere.
I don’t think it is a good idea to block twitter completely. Some countries use twitter for official announcements, including emergency warning.
That’s a weird reason to keep using X. Hopefully these places also does other forms of communications, otherwise it’s a sad state of affairs.
They do have other ways such as SMS if it is critical, but most people simply share the twitter link via WhatsApp and you can be more updated by using twitter. Most people haven’t moved to Bluesky or Mastodon, so if there is flooding or heavy rain most people will share updates on their location via twitter and WhatsApp like for example flooded streets.
It’s always a good idea to block racist platforms lorded over by a troll who will delete comments that oppose him.
My country doesn’t and hopefully others will follow.
I hope so too, twitter is awful.
New certified Signal classic
Didn’t Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?
Yup. I started using it in part because of his tweet
Yes, but then last year he started saying it had known vulnerabilities that weren’t being fixed, around the same time Telegram was attacking Signal’s credibility. I seem to remember him outright endorsing Telegram but have only done a quick search and that hasn’t popped up.
saying there are unspecified “known vulnerabilities” within Signal
His source: Trust me bro
4years ago yeah https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-signal
Not really. It’s still not big. It definitely got bigger after he supported it though.
They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.
Time to create redsky, yellowsky, and pinksky URL forwarders
Redground
I think we need laws against platforms censoring discussion of their rivals, particularly with shadow bans and shadow delistings.
like anti-competitive laws? We have those. They tend to rely on certain people enforcing them though
You wish. It’s not gonna happen with these douchebags in power.
That’s the sad truth.
I was waiting for such endorsement, maybe my friends will switch now.
In kinda pissed with them not agreeing to the chat app interoperability protocolo though, i want to delete whatsapp so bad…
Agree this reinforce that signal is good for now.
@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.
Interesting, I did not know about that app https://tox.chat/index.html
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).
It was never about free speech
Very free speech absolutist of him.
Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
Is signal foss?
It’s source-available
Yeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
Their backend is closed source.[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.
They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
Here are some workarounds:
- Don’t use Xitter
- Use your phone number
- Use a URL shortener
He’s not doing anything except getting more bad press for himself.
