Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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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.
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I'm check that out. Thanks!
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Been using Signal for years. Love it.
Makes sense than an anti-free speech dipshit like Elon Musk would oppose it.
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Racists and other easily influenced weak-minded individuals.
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It's always a good idea to block racist platforms lorded over by a troll who will delete comments that oppose him.
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And they wouldn't be alone if their family came with them
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Literally this
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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.
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Twitter should have been regulated as a common carrier and one rich asshole shouldn’t have been allowed to buy it, regardless of their politics
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No one outside the USA cares about the politics of who owns what social network
Crazy I know
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Honestly I feel all news and social messenging services would be better served if they were forced to be public owned.
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Lots of people still use it, obviously musk fans, people who actually make a living off of content creation it's hard to move a entire fandom to a new platform. People who aren't from the US probably don't care about the whole mess and stick around because everyone they know is still on the platform.
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Unfortunately fedverse isn't really ready for the general population, it's why so many people flocked to bluesky over mastodon. I know I prefer blueskys UI and features over what Mastodon has to offer.
Though Tumblr is planning to enter the fedverse so maybe that'll help somehow.
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Yup. I started using it in part because of his tweet
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If someone is only willing to communicate with you through WhatsApp, they don't value your friendship.
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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.
