Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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From the looks of it, the variety of ways you can purposefully or accidentally destroy your local database, and the several options to automatically delete messages, really gives me the feeling SimpleX is intended to be extremely disposable and deniable.
After playing with it I just don’t see it being used for anything expected to be convenient or ongoing. Regarding the one device per account thing, I think the whole point is you just protect your one app, nobody is sneaking in your laptop or tablet, no remote leaks possible from a sync engine. On iOS you can link to a desktop app, but your phone must remain not just on, but in the app and on the pair screen. One twitch out, PC disconnects.
Feels like something for journalists, whistleblowers, protesters, and all the bad ones. It’s a burner app for your burner phone.
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https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
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Thanks for the correction. That's pretty rad. Now I'm wondering if that's a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
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I've blocked Twitter on my Adguard Home DNS already last year, so no "X" shit in my house/our mobile devices anywhere.
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In kinda pissed with them not agreeing to the chat app interoperability protocolo though, i want to delete whatsapp so bad...
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Redground
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In his case.
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I don't think it is a good idea to block twitter completely. Some countries use twitter for official announcements, including emergency warning.
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It's source-available
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There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.
They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
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That’s a weird reason to keep using X. Hopefully these places also does other forms of communications, otherwise it’s a sad state of affairs.
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They do have other ways such as SMS if it is critical, but most people simply share the twitter link via WhatsApp and you can be more updated by using twitter. Most people haven't moved to Bluesky or Mastodon, so if there is flooding or heavy rain most people will share updates on their location via twitter and WhatsApp like for example flooded streets.
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Signal has been under way more scrutiny than SimpleX. In both academic papers and security audits.
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My country doesn't and hopefully others will follow.
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Tox is nice.
The typical pattern over here: if someone uses Signal, you guess they're some military type (wants things to be secure, but wants it easy). If someone uses Tox, you guess they're some hacker / anarchist type (wants things to be secure, but also anonymizable, even if it's a bit harder).
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I would really like to know who is using 'X' now ? I mean apart from Musk and his bot army
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A bunch of undecided voter types that pay zero attention to anything that isn’t their hobbies.
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Unfortunately, a lot of official government services and representatives are still using it. I saw someone reference a Twitter post about that Canadian plane crash, for instance.
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A lot of people unfortunately. Specially people outside the US, I think mastodon is ready for people to switch, but nobody does, the most they do is switch to bluesky
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I hope so too, twitter is awful.
