Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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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.
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I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.
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New certified Signal classic
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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.
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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!
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Most social media should be public domain or at least have standardised open APIs, it's the logical way to go for a free society with healthy governments and institutions. As it is right now it's like private companies owning the streets..
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Dude most European heads of state and institutions have Xitter accounts and just kept on using them.. It's a disgrace..
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The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.
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same. No stupid gimmicks and whatever. Just secured messaging.
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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.
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Yeah idk, maybe I’m not that much of a micro blogger, i was never a twitter/tumblr user, so mastodon is kind of new to me, so I don’t miss any features. As far as UI, I believe most mastodon instances look pretty good, just not a twitter carbon copy like Bluesky, but that’s a matter of taste.
I believe the biggest problem is “clout” or following, with likes and boosts and stuff like that not being properly federated most of the time, people simply can not “grow”
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What? I'm talking about ownership of a private company, not a country
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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
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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.
