Been using Signal for years. Love it.
Makes sense than an anti-free speech dipshit like Elon Musk would oppose it.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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same. No stupid gimmicks and whatever. Just secured messaging.
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.
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
You can't change the world if you don't try at all. What a braindead take..
And they wouldn't be alone if their family came with them
Literally this
"You can check out any time you like... But you can never leeeave."
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.
Leaving is never really an option. But running the two apps side by side still works.
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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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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You know, for a free speech supporter, he sure seems to hate it when people speak freely.
He wants to speak freely, but he doesn't want to afford anyone else the same right.
It's not an uncommon stance, but it's a hypocritical one.
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"Free speech absolutist"*
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Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
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.
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.
New certified Signal classic
The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.
I was waiting for such endorsement, maybe my friends will switch now.
Agree this reinforce that signal is good for now.
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They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.
I think we need laws against platforms censoring discussion of their rivals, particularly with shadow bans and shadow delistings.
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It was never about free speech
I've blocked Twitter on my Adguard Home DNS already last year, so no "X" shit in my house/our mobile devices anywhere.
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Very free speech absolutist of him.
I would really like to know who is using 'X' now ? I mean apart from Musk and his bot army
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
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.
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”
One thing I did recently was search mastodon for some "normal" topics like fashion and yoga, but I didn't find much.
The nice thing about Mastodon and ActivityPub is that they're designed for the long run, and don't need profits to be successful. So they can have slow growth year over year and still survive and slowly build up a user base that gradually adds more and more topics to attract more people.
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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Didn't Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?
Yup. I started using it in part because of his tweet
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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.
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
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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Free speech but no Signal? Red flag.
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