Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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Yes, but then last year he started saying it had known vulnerabilities that weren’t being fixed, around the same time Telegram was attacking Signal’s credibility. I seem to remember him outright endorsing Telegram but have only done a quick search and that hasn’t popped up.
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Very free speech absolutist of him.
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It was never about free speech
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Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
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So what’s the opinion here between Signal and SimpleX?
Signal gets all the attention, and seems more approachable but ties to a phone number which can be a big deal.
SimpleX ties to nothing but I could absolutely see people I know fucking it up and wondering where their “account” went.
So, Signal as an common man’s adoptable compromise and SimpleX to nerd out with full “opsec” and disposability? That about right?
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I think we need laws against platforms censoring discussion of their rivals, particularly with shadow bans and shadow delistings.
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"Free speech absolutist"*
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Not really. It's still not big. It definitely got bigger after he supported it though.
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Here are some workarounds:
- Don't use Xitter
- Use your phone number
- Use a URL shortener
He's not doing anything except getting more bad press for himself.
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Not really true. His supporters are allowed to speak freely as well.
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He absolutely wants to support the speech he agrees with. The rest can get fucked.
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saying there are unspecified "known vulnerabilities" within Signal
His source: Trust me bro
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I'm trying to use simplex, mainly for the instance's chat. 2 things to say:
- notifications work perfectly even without play store
- every device has a separate account - I can't reuse the same one. Not the end of the world, but it's really annoying
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@cyrano The "problem" (actually, the feature) with those censorship algorithms is that they rely a lot on the "exact contents" of the message ("Scunthorpe Problem"), so X is probably programmed to detect the Signal's domain and block due to the presence of such link (similar to how Facebook was/is blocking links to the largest PixelFed instances, and then they also decided to block links to DistroWatch and official websites from various Linux distros), so it's not programmed (yet) to censor just the "hexadecimal/base64/whatever" portion of the link alone. And there's where Tox could shine: a handle is literally a hexadecimal sequence, without Tox's domains, without URI Schemas, just a bunch of digits and letters from A to F.
I don't know why Tox isn't mentioned as a "instant messaging platform for whistleblowers": it got Onion (Tor) tunneling possibility (as well as tunneling it through I2P outproxies because it actually accepts any kind of SOCKS5 proxy), it's registration-less (even Matrix needs registration) so it's effectively anonymous IMO.
SimpleX seems to be that, too, although I didn't have the opportunity to use it more than I used Tox. But from the little I've used it, it's similar to Signal in the sense that it's a link (and a large link) and not simply a hash/hex sequence.
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Interesting, I did not know about that app https://tox.chat/index.html
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SimpleX sounds like herpes.
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like anti-competitive laws? We have those. They tend to rely on certain people enforcing them though
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You wish. It's not gonna happen with these douchebags in power.
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That's the sad truth.
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Is signal foss?
