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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.
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”*
hes quite the selective speech supporter
He absolutely wants to support the speech he agrees with. The rest can get fucked.
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 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.
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.
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!
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 also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.
Time to create redsky, yellowsky, and pinksky URL forwarders
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
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…
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.
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.
The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.
Didn’t Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?
4years ago yeah https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-signal
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
Yup. I started using it in part because of his tweet
Not really. It’s still not big. It definitely got bigger after he supported it though.
I would really like to know who is using ‘X’ now ? I mean apart from Musk and his bot army
Dude most European heads of state and institutions have Xitter accounts and just kept on using them… It’s a disgrace…
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, 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.
Racists and other easily influenced weak-minded individuals.
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
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.
Twitter should have been regulated as a common carrier and one rich asshole shouldn’t have been allowed to buy it, regardless of their politics
Most social media should be public domain or at least have standardised open APIs, it’s the logical way to go for a free society with healthy governments and institutions. As it is right now it’s like private companies owning the streets…
Honestly I feel all news and social messenging services would be better served if they were forced to be public owned.
