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Been using Signal for years. Love it.
Makes sense than an anti-free speech dipshit like Elon Musk would oppose it.
same. No stupid gimmicks and whatever. Just secured messaging.
It’s not easy to leave WhatsApp. I’ve transitioned to Signal a month ago and lost contact with a lot of people. My friends and family think I’m going crazy for attitudes like these. “You can’t change the world on your own”… like that was the plan 😅
Thanks Musk, that was the motivation I needed to keep away from WhatsApp.
Obviously not a X/Twitter user, I’m not a fkin idiot.
I’ve never used whats app and I never plan to. Recently I’ve been trying Line for messaging my family abroad and I like how it’s a Japanese/ Korean app so I can get away from American corporations
You can’t change the world if you don’t try at all. What a braindead take…
And they wouldn’t be alone if their family came with them
Literally this
“You can check out any time you like… But you can never leeeave.”
It’s a slow and constant process of onboarding people to signal. I managed to onboard my local gaming group into using Signal after Trump got elected.
Leaving is never really an option. But running the two apps side by side still works.
It varies, I guess. Some people might not be able to leave due to their job for example.
I left, it’s an option for me. And I’m not coming back, I don’t want to admit defeat.
I’m in an island now, it’s annoying how these companies penetrated our lives.
What about using Matrix ?
I’m pretty sure that you can bridge Matrix with WhatsApp.
I’ll check that out. Thanks!
Welcome
If someone is only willing to communicate with you through WhatsApp, they don’t value your friendship.
If someone is not technical enough tk use Signal or Telegram they are not my friends. But not everyone I communicate with is my friend.
I managed to get my parents and brother to switch to signal two years ago, never switched back and it’s always working, very easy to use. I’m pretty sure whatsapp will enshitify at such a rate that signal will absorb the users.
Keep on pushing, I’ve been transitioning to Signal and now I’ve got a handful of good friends on there. People are realising what’s going on but be mindful that a lot of people have businesses and work that depend on it… They are hostages. But if everyone changes gradually it will reach a point they won’t be anymore. Keep on preaching brother!
You know, for a free speech supporter, he sure seems to hate it when people speak freely.
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.
“Free speech absolutist”*
He absolutely wants to support the speech he agrees with. The rest can get fucked.
hes quite the selective speech supporter
Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
Is signal foss?
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.
It’s source-available
Supposedly they’re unblocked again, but there’s been no explanation from Xitter about the issue. Definitely seems suspicious that this happened while DOGE is having trouble with whistleblowers using Signal, though.
They have a pattern of trying something and seeing how far they can get. Then they’ll say it was an oversight or a joke.
Someone recently called it similar to “reconnaissance in force” by the military – you go out with an uncommitted force and learn from the kind of resistance you get so you can be more effective.
The point is “mistakes” like these are not benign, or at least should not be treated as benign, since we can’t ever really know for sure.
New certified Signal classic
The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.
I was waiting for such endorsement, maybe my friends will switch now.
Agree this reinforce that signal is good for now.
In kinda pissed with them not agreeing to the chat app interoperability protocolo though, i want to delete whatsapp so bad…
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.
You wish. It’s not gonna happen with these douchebags in power.
That’s the sad truth.
like anti-competitive laws? We have those. They tend to rely on certain people enforcing them though
It was never about free speech
Very free speech absolutist of him.
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.
My country doesn’t and hopefully others will follow.
I hope so too, twitter is awful.
It’s always a good idea to block racist platforms lorded over by a troll who will delete comments that oppose him.
I would really like to know who is using ‘X’ now ? I mean apart from Musk and his bot army
A lot of people unfortunately. Specially people outside the US, I think mastodon is ready for people to switch, but nobody does, the most they do is switch to bluesky
Unfortunately fedverse isn’t really ready for the general population, it’s why so many people flocked to bluesky over mastodon. I know I prefer blueskys UI and features over what Mastodon has to offer.
Though Tumblr is planning to enter the fedverse so maybe that’ll help somehow.
Yeah idk, maybe I’m not that much of a micro blogger, i was never a twitter/tumblr user, so mastodon is kind of new to me, so I don’t miss any features. As far as UI, I believe most mastodon instances look pretty good, just not a twitter carbon copy like Bluesky, but that’s a matter of taste.
I believe the biggest problem is “clout” or following, with likes and boosts and stuff like that not being properly federated most of the time, people simply can not “grow”
One thing I did recently was search mastodon for some “normal” topics like fashion and yoga, but I didn’t find much.
The nice thing about Mastodon and ActivityPub is that they’re designed for the long run, and don’t need profits to be successful. So they can have slow growth year over year and still survive and slowly build up a user base that gradually adds more and more topics to attract more people.
Yeh that’s a big problem too. People on Mastodon are mostly IT/Technical people and maybe musicians, some artists and a lot of activists.
I hope at some point people understand that Bluesky is basically the same as twitter, and at some point, the company can become evil.
But yea h, activitypub is pretty much immortal haha
Dude most European heads of state and institutions have Xitter accounts and just kept on using them… It’s a disgrace…
Racists and other easily influenced weak-minded individuals.
Unfortunately, a lot of official government services and representatives are still using it. I saw someone reference a Twitter post about that Canadian plane crash, for instance.
Lots of people still use it, obviously musk fans, people who actually make a living off of content creation it’s hard to move a entire fandom to a new platform. People who aren’t from the US probably don’t care about the whole mess and stick around because everyone they know is still on the platform.
A bunch of undecided voter types that pay zero attention to anything that isn’t their hobbies.
No one outside the USA cares about the politics of who owns what social network
Crazy I know
I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.
What? I’m talking about ownership of a private company, not a country
Didn’t Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?
4years ago yeah https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-signal
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
Not really. It’s still not big. It definitely got bigger after he supported it though.
