• ohellidk
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    753 days ago

    Remember when he said to “use signal”? Pepperidge farm remembers.

  • Emberleaf
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    663 days ago

    At this point, if you’re still using anything even remotely connected to Elon Musk, you get what you deserve. I’m not saying that to be an asshole, either. It’s just a simple fact.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      123 days ago

      A bunch of government agencies are being told to do business exclusively on X, The Everything App.

      Musk’s also trying to build out a financials tool within his ecosystem and to incentivize more people to do business in his preferred basket of shitcoins.

      He’s a monopolist, working with other monopolists to corner the Internet as a marketplace. He’s not looking to give people a choice to use other tools.

    • @[email protected]
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      He never said he wants free speech for everyone :) TBH the shame should be on those who believed that Musk could somehow be the first right-wing extremist in history that wished the people at large had more rights and more freedoms.

      • @[email protected]
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        He never said he wants free speech for everyone

        Yes he fucking did. He called himself a “free speech absolutist” which was just a blatant lie just like every other sentence that has farted out of his Nazi lips.

  • Melody Fwygon
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    This just means you wrap your signal links in a URL shortener.

    A slight hassle; but all the more reason to hate the muskratt.

    We should be quietly linking anyone with a need to send a signal link to a nice privacy respecting URL shortening instance somewhere that will basically delete the link in 3-7 days unless told otherwise to keep it around by the user at creation.

    Heck; host your own URL shortener while you’re at it.

    • ElTacoEsMiPastor
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      questions, not to you specifically, but to anyone who stumbles upon this thread.

      • what would be a decent URL shortener that meets this criteria?
      • any pointers to host one’s own shortener? mainly i’m thinking of registrars, but also the mechanics to transform links and store data for a few days
  • m-p{3}
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    I’m surprised DOGE themselves aren’t using it to skirt FOIA.

    Or maybe they are.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      173 days ago

      oh they for sure are. also FOIA is probably dead forever. so. you know. be ready for that little announcement.

    • 🖖USS-Ethernet
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      53 days ago

      They fall under the presidential records act so they aren’t subject to FOIA until the 2030s.

      • @grue
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        23 days ago

        They claim they fall under the Presidential Records Act, but they’re lying.

  • deadcatbounce
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    Isn’t it strange that when you believe in an oligarch, they never disappoint.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 days ago

      Musk blocking Signal links makes me just a bit happier about my Signal donation every month :>

    • @root
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      Monthly for me

  • @[email protected]
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    It is shocking how addicted people are to this app that no quantity of diminished functionality will make them leave. It’s like that Russian opiate that makes all your skin fall off. Crazy shit.

    • @root
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      Ikr? I used Reddit for well over a decade, and left without an issue after the APIpocolypse. Did the same with Proton a couple weeks ago. I have no loyalties in tech.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 days ago

        It’s said as krokodil correct? Means crocodile because your skin will look like a crocodile’s. I watched a video I wish I’d never seen where some medical workers took off a user’s boot and his foot came off with it.

    • deadcatbounce
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      Nice try Elon.

      Just like the seventies, anarchy is the only way forward to get out of this lying twisted thieving divisive oligarch of politics running my country for the last quarter century plus.

  • NutWrench
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    113 days ago

    There must be a hundred third-party freeware apps that let you encrypt files. Heck, even zip archivers have a password protect option. If you’re a whistleblower, you’re going to be collecting data over long periods of time, not sending instant messages. You can use OnionShare (droid-ify) to create temporary TOR links if you really need to share a file quickly and untraceably.

  • @seonar22
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    least thick skinned wannabe “politician” I’ve ever seen.