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You know, for a free speech supporter, he sure seems to hate it when people speak freely.

Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.

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

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

It was never about free speech

Very free speech absolutist of him.

Didn't Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?

Been using Signal for years. Love it.

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

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.

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.

Free speech but no Signal? Red flag.

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

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.

https://gizmodo.com/x-briefly-blocked-then-unblocked-signal-links-as-federal-workers-seek-security-2000564966

@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.

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

I would really like to know who is using 'X' now ? I mean apart from Musk and his bot army

So what’s the opinion here between Signal and SimpleX?

Signal gets all the attention, and seems more approachable but ties to a phone number which can be a big deal.

SimpleX ties to nothing but I could absolutely see people I know fucking it up and wondering where their “account” went.

So, Signal as an common man’s adoptable compromise and SimpleX to nerd out with full “opsec” and disposability? That about right?

New certified Signal classic

The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.

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