Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    65·
    15 dagen geleden

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

  • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    60·
    15 dagen geleden

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

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    13 dagen geleden

    Been using Signal for years. Love it.

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

  • o_arguido@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    13 dagen geleden

    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.

    • Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      61·
      13 dagen geleden

      Leaving is never really an option. But running the two apps side by side still works.

    • prinzmegahertz@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      13 dagen geleden

      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.

    • Coolkat@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      13 dagen geleden

      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.

    • Xed@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 dagen geleden

      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

    • courval@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 dagen geleden

      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!

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    26·
    15 dagen geleden

    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.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    14 dagen geleden

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

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      10 dagen geleden

      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.

      • monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        8 dagen geleden

        Yeah. I thought it was important context that they had backpedalled, but I did not intend to downplay the severity of the issue.

  • dsilverz@friendica.world
    131·
    14 dagen geleden

    @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.

    • perestroika@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      13 dagen geleden

      Tox is nice. My favourite flavour is qTox.

      The typical pattern over here: if someone uses Signal, you guess they’re some military type (wants things to be secure, doesn’t care much about anonymity, wants things to work one way and simply).

      If someone uses Tox, you guess they’re some hacker / anarchist type (wants things to be secure, but also anonymizable, wants things to be flexible, even if it can backfire).