• ohellidk
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    8123 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      1323 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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        422 days ago

        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.

  • 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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      2123 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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      523 days ago

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

  • 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
  • NutWrench
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    1323 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.

  • deadcatbounce
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    23 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    423 days ago

    I’ve gotta donate the signal and spread the word, it’s been my messaging goat for years