A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.
You have to trust someone with these communications, there is no free communication beyond face to face
Threema is what signal should have been.
But I ain’t got in me to start forcing people again lol
Signal it is until it is proven untrustworthy
They fucked up so badly, Elon Musk was right for once.
Damn that’s bad, and Signal’s response was even worse. They knew about it in 2018, for 6 years.
They didn’t fuck up, they made a design choice about the scope of the app. Are they also fucking up by not blurring the messages on screen? After all someone could be looking over your shoulder without you realizing it. Maybe Signal should ship with spyglasses.
Unless you build your own, you have to trust your ISP to move packets, but you don’t have to rely on any third party services or give them your personal info to use social media.
Fully decentralized, open-source, and encrypted social networks exist. The only servers needed are your computer and the computers of the friends you communicate with. (See: Retroshare )
They’re just never going to get big because small, personal friend-to-friend networks can’t compete with the network effects of centralized media and a never-ending torrent of dopamine on tap.
Matrix (federated) or Briar (multi-modal P2P) are both good options for getting rid of dependency on central organizations.
Still need an ISP. ISPs are pretty centralized and monolithic for lots of people.
