Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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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There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.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.
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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.
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You can't change the world if you don't try at all. What a braindead take..
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Leaving is never really an option. But running the two apps side by side still works.
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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.
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"You can check out any time you like... But you can never leeeave."
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What about using Matrix?
I'm pretty sure that you can bridge Matrix with WhatsApp.
