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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 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

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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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    324•3 months ago

    • @Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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      116•3 months ago

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

      • @Emerald@lemmy.world
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        19•3 months ago

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

    • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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      26•3 months ago

      Meanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.

      Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

      • @iowagneiss@midwest.social
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        36•3 months ago

        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.

        • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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          16•3 months ago

          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.

          • @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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            8•3 months ago

            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 ✨
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        14•3 months ago

        Mike Pence still hanging around

        Man Trump supporters won’t quit huh?

      • Ulrich
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        12•3 months ago

        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.

    • @maplebar@lemmy.world
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      5•3 months ago

      Look at the date, lmao.

  • @realitista@lemm.ee
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    291•3 months ago

    That’s quite a strong endorsement for Signal.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼OP
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      31•3 months ago

      I agree

  • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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    155•3 months ago

    Damn I should use signal

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼OP
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      45•3 months ago

      Absolutely

  • TomMasz
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    140•3 months ago

    Free Speech Absolutist 🤣

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

    • Tiger Jerusalem
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      9•3 months ago

      Come on Elon, say it!

  • @selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    99•3 months ago

    Great, free publicity for Signal!

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼OP
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      23•3 months ago

      That’s what I thought when I first saw this

  • TheObviousSolution
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    He only cares about free speech when he can control what and whom it is flooded to. If you disagree with him, it will get automatically prioritized for the trash heap and chances are his critics will have worked it out of their system to bother complaining somewhere else, giving him a two for one. The russian troll factory strategy: https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

  • @giacomo@lemm.ee
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    58•3 months ago

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

    • @Rob1992@lemmy.world
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      21•3 months ago

      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.

    • @WhatSay@slrpnk.net
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      Oddly, many reporters still do

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      deleted by creator

      • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        12•3 months ago

        Oh thats going to be bad news when musk sells them all that info

    • @allgreentome@lemm.ee
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      4•3 months ago

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

      • @giacomo@lemm.ee
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        29•3 months ago

        sounds like you do your own research

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        11•3 months ago

        removed by mod

      • @SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca
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        10•3 months ago

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

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        You sound like you’re about to lose your farm

      • @flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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        10•3 months ago

        Wrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky

        • @knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
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          6•3 months ago

          And a bunch of them are on mastodon

      • @maplebar@lemmy.world
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        7•3 months ago

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

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

    • @Huschke@lemmy.world
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      2•3 months ago

      That’s still half the US population though.

    • @mke@programming.dev
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      2•3 months ago

      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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    57•3 months ago

    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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    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.

  • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    42•3 months ago

    Didn’t the MAGA insurrection use Signal to coordinate their efforts?

    Wait wait…yes, follow dear leader to an app that keeps your history and doesn’t encrypt at rest. You have nothing to hide and nothing to fear.

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    Man… I’m getting tired of this guy.

    • Ulrich
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      …only just now?

  • @Baguette@lemm.ee
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    35•3 months ago

    That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal

    “Our product is banned on twitter!”

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    Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.

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      I say it again and again, and I cant wrap my head around how nobody would agree or straight up kill for this belief.

      But why… Why wont people think of the SHAREHOLDERS!!! ;((((

      Devastating…

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      It’ll be easier on them to do so if they were all placed in the same room

    • @SabinStargem@lemmings.world
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      I would like them to be imprisoned on a island. It would be a Battle Royal that I can get behind.

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    26•3 months ago

    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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    25•3 months ago

    an American permutation of the CCP’s WeChat app model where the American government has final and singular authority to monitor and surveil all payments, domestic travel and communications of American citizens.

    https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense

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      I know things are defcon level insane,but reading that, the as is way they phrase and apply the terms, by someone with that specific set of skills, makes things sound (they are) so much more malicious.

      Welcome to America 2.0 : death to america, hello network state.

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