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Modern day threats are not always visible like your computer flashing naughty stuff on your screen or overtaking your computer. Those exists but it’s more about surveillance and control of information.

Especially when companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are in on it. US and Israel probably already get your files, but if you don’t update, Russia, China, and North Korea will probably will set up shop inside your PC.

Have you given ReactOS a try?

ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows https://reactos.org/

They’re building tools to <cull people and children> from half way across the world and you’re worried about the tone?

Final step: Drink verification cans before you can boot your PC.

A spoiled brat writing a angry letter to santa saying his parents don’t let him do stupid things.

Only it’s the elected US President.

Yeah there’s a reason they don’t allow you to use your own self hosted server.

People just accepting what companies say is how we ended up in the current mess. But here we are again. Companies work around how people perceive things to be secure and private all the time. It’s just one small cog in the big machine.

It’s how some NGOs are part of a intelligence and surveillance network but people only focus on the social work and it becomes immoral to criticize the good things they do as a cover.

There’s also reluctance to release it in f-droid. They say they want to becontrol the distribution, but they have no problem with Apple and Google being the main distribution platforms. They haven’t even looked at unified push. And that just adds to the “there’s something else going on” factors.

Signal protocol might be bullet proof but the app supplier, centralized server, and phone number requirement and the most mainstream OS aren’t. When you combine with how mainstream OS companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google work together with the feds, there’s ways that the bulletproof protocol may not be sufficient and is only a part of the bigger picture. There’s also US government spying on notification.

They may work without them but the inconvenience will deter 99% of people. Being dependent these external factors, It just doesn’t feel as bullet proof as a whole.

Whatsapp also uses the signal protocol, but you wouldn’t trust them because they’re under facebook, would you?

por que no los dos?

It’s always funny when Apple fanboys try to whitewash its brand.

“Apple is the most private mobile operating system there is that cares for its users that stands up to governments” until it doesn’t but that’s still great because it is how it is and apple has to obey laws and its fine because they hide their involvement with feds so well with marketing, and the cult accepts whatever they do, so they get a pass.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260226022937/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

Have you tried not being a cult member to manufacture consent for corporations?

That or PR agencies are picking up fediverse to push people into being docile consumers.

Remember when users used to flood reddit subs to find support, real opinions, express dissatisfaction, criticize bad feature/products, and warn others?

Now, the people who complain get flooded by astroturfing bots run by marketing agencies to say they’re holding it wrong, not important enough, doing something wrong while praising corporation overtaking governments.

Now that Google has partnered with reddit, they get to have many searches sending troves of people there expecting solutions or like minded people or community support.

So, yea there are still people.

you are still in a group with like 90% the same views

I hate this oversimplification and draging fediverse through the mud. There are literally tankie, zionist, and some right wing instances going at each other regularly in lemmy.

In any other platform, users would be banned or just don’t speak up at all because of inherent threat of being seen as an outcast and that would be the end of it.

For all the time I’ve been on the internet, I’ve never seen this level of anti censorship without going into the dark corners of the internet.

It was all “west good, others savages” before. It’s been amazing what the fediverse has unlocked.

You can peddle this echo chamber bullshit all day, but i don t buy it. I know there are attempts at censorship in fediverse too but theres always a counter argument in the other instances calling them out without a threat of getting banned and that’s beautiful. Even when instances ban users and delete posts, some of it lingers on other instances for proof.

Long live the fediverse.

So are they removing all other websites that post lies or modify their articles to suit their narrative at times?

Fox news? MSN? CNN? BBC? Reuters? AP?

Why the sudden urge to validate the archives? How many articles have been proven to be modified?

Seems like they’ve been wanting to remove an entity the empire doesn’t control and they’re using this as a cover to do it.

Are you making a web-based messenger based on signal protocol?

If so, this sounds great.