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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

www.disruptionist.com

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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

www.disruptionist.com

Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

via https://mastodon.nl/users/Jigsaw_You/statuses/114018619621784503

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      The irony. I believe this tweet gave Signal a huge international boost.

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        Yeah, so much traffic it actually crashed the servers for a little bit

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      Meanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.

      Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

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        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.

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        He has a very low bar by most of the developed world’s standards, but he refused to lower it further for maga, so he’s history now.

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          He was a conservative, not a MAGA supporter in my opinion. At the end of the day I have to see it as conservatives have ideals that do not align with mine, but MAGA is a group that believes that their ideals matter more than the people’s freedoms. They believe tearing apart a representative democracy is fine, so long as their ideology prospers at the moment, but it is VERY short sighted as their ideology isn’t why the leaders of MAGA is reforming it. Once they have reformed it the conservatives who supported MAGA will no longer have much say in anything, their votes won’t matter. The oligarchs will decide what size rations they/we deserve, and we all know those rations are shrinking and shrinking.

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            he was the religious conservative that Trump needed to win the first time, once that was done he was suppose to be wallpaper. His creepy behavior made him perfectly hypocritical with Trump. His god will judge him harshly.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Mike Pence still hanging around

        Man Trump supporters won’t quit huh?

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      Look at the date, lmao.

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    That’s quite a strong endorsement for Signal.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      I agree

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    That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal

    “Our product is banned on twitter!”

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    Great, free publicity for Signal!

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      That’s what I thought when I first saw this

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    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.

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    Damn I should use signal

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      Absolutely

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    Free Speech Absolutist 🤣

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      He meant “free speech abolitionist”, easy typo to make.

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      Come on Elon, say it!

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    The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!

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    He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.

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    but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.

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      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.

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      Oddly, many reporters still do

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      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.

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      Everyone who’s not a paranoid leftist uses X; I find current information about every subject I’m interested in seconds

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        You sound like you’re about to lose your farm

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        sounds like you do your own research

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        You don’t find iinformation, you find hot takes. Xitter is a cesspool if you want to learn about anything.

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        Wrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky

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          And a bunch of them are on mastodon

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        You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons “odd hand gesture” in your bedroom at night.

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        Lol, Alex Jones style research. Using memes and headlines as news.

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        Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

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      That’s still half the US population though.

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    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

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    So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.

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    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

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    And yet, sadly, there are only like 5 people in my entire contact list who use it.

    What a shame…

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    It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.

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      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.

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        Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that

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