• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.

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      2 months ago

      Time to create redsky, yellowsky, and pinksky URL forwarders

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      2 months ago

      I think we need laws against platforms censoring discussion of their rivals, particularly with shadow bans and shadow delistings.

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    2 months ago

    I was waiting for such endorsement, maybe my friends will switch now.

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    1 month ago

    Been using Signal for years. Love it.

    Makes sense than an anti-free speech dipshit like Elon Musk would oppose it.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        1 month ago

        If someone is only willing to communicate with you through WhatsApp, they don’t value your friendship.

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          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.

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      1 month ago

      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

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      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!

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    2 months ago

    Here are some workarounds:

    1. Don’t use Xitter
    2. Use your phone number
    3. Use a URL shortener

    He’s not doing anything except getting more bad press for himself.

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    I’ve blocked Twitter on my Adguard Home DNS already last year, so no “X” shit in my house/our mobile devices anywhere.

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    2 months ago

    Sounds like that censorship conservatives are all up in a row about… Oh not anymore fancy that

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      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

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      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.

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      Dude most European heads of state and institutions have Xitter accounts and just kept on using them… It’s a disgrace…

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      1 month ago

      A bunch of undecided voter types that pay zero attention to anything that isn’t their hobbies.

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      No one outside the USA cares about the politics of who owns what social network

      Crazy I know

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        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.