Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

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

He wants to speak freely, but he doesn’t want to afford anyone else the same right.

It’s not an uncommon stance, but it’s a hypocritical one.

And when you say freely you mean hate.

Not really true. His supporters are allowed to speak freely as well.

“Free speech absolutist”*

hes quite the selective speech supporter

He absolutely wants to support the speech he agrees with. The rest can get fucked.

Been using Signal for years. Love it.

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

same. No stupid gimmicks and whatever. Just secured messaging.

Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.

~~Their backend is closed source.~~

[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]

It’s source-available

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.

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

You can’t change the world if you don’t try at all. What a braindead take…

And they wouldn’t be alone if their family came with them

“You can check out any time you like… But you can never leeeave.”

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

It varies, I guess. Some people might not be able to leave due to their job for example.

I left, it’s an option for me. And I’m not coming back, I don’t want to admit defeat.

I’m in an island now, it’s annoying how these companies penetrated our lives.

What about using Matrix ?

I’m pretty sure that you can bridge Matrix with WhatsApp.

Matrix.Org - Bridges

https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

If someone is only willing to communicate with you through WhatsApp, they don’t value your friendship.

If someone is not technical enough tk use Signal or Telegram they are not my friends. But not everyone I communicate with is my friend.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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