Elon Musk

kanye actually buying parler seems like one of those things that wont really happen

bcz bots maybe

i was very excited by the WaPo story abt the (apparently) hilarious internal beef at truth but try as i might the paywall stopped me reading abt it

i even have a dedicated plug-in for stealing content from the other side of newspaper paywalls but BEZOS has defeated me, must be feeling the pinch after all that rings money >:(

in conclusion i love x

bots in the brain

his meme sensibility is so early 2010s reddit and he doesn't even have the excuse of being a kid when that kind of shit was considered acceptable

― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 10:58 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

there's gotta be some Michael Jackson thing going on here, he spent his prime shitposting years investing his Apartheid money so he's now spending his life trying to recapture them

i was very excited by the WaPo story abt the (apparently) hilarious internal beef at truth but try as i might the paywall stopped me reading abt it

― mark s, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 1:26 PM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

enjoy https://justpaste.it/2adko

will be pretty funny if elon if elon kills twitter by adding payments and calling an uber to it

if he really opens up the platform to developers i swear to you here and now i will make the most deranged app that i know how

lol thx for that lag∞n

i like that, just as a mastodon tweet is called a "toot", a truth too is simply called a "truth"

my favourite bit of the WaPo piece is where don jr simply wanders in and "asks to be paid"

(he does nothing and had no role in setting up or financing the platform) (you will be startled to learn)

anyway back to elon

Isn't one of his kids named X?

who the hell uses Signal

work teams with extremely security conscious bosses.

God, that WaPo piece... looking more like Trump Media will go the way of the USFL, but maybe burn up faster

ETTD

who the hell uses Signal

who the hell uses Signal

A LOT more people should probably use Signal

judging from how many people in my address book are on signal many people use it

white nationalists also used it during Unite the Right.

so yeah, lots of people, some good, some bad, some in-between, but lots of people use it.

both sides now

^never liked that recut version of the Free song

I use Signal, ama

my favourite bit of the WaPo piece is where don jr simply wanders in and "asks to be paid"

― mark s, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 2:36 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

and then cries to his dad about it who then yells at the founders lol

afaict, signal is popular among people who have reason to worry about opsec (obviously), and in countries where people don't use whatapp/wechat/ktalk, etc. so don't have an obvious option for cross platform messaging (i.e. america).

i use signal to chat with one friend, it’s very good and better than imessage

imessage is a demon that comes bundled with apple products

Signal is good for buying certain things

https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china

Maybe the Democrats should use signal

I use Signal too. My sister and most/all of her NGO and world traveller friends all use it.

also on Signal. I send them money sometimes.

I only use iMessage with people who don’t use Signal

I like the UX for WhatsApp way better than Signal.

whatsapp has the funniest name

Whaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssaaaaaaapp

But do other people have to be using signal on the other end? Like you have to get people you know to install it to use it?

I'm glad to have no need for privacy for the most part - cant imagine someone caring what I am messaging people about -0-__ maybe good for CIA agents or something?

Also if you use things like signal isn't it kindof just saying to the NSA - "hey I am hiding something"

https://i.imgur.com/fbu6WgI.png

Can't imagine the NSA spends their days going - "holy shit, Stanley Coppersmith opened a Signal account", they're too busy spying on civilians listening to private phone calls

Latham, what app do you use? I don't understand your pov, because to do things like group chats at some point you all have to pick some platform to use

and I assume people are just kidding w/stuff like "white nationalists use it" cuz that's like objecting to sending packages in the mail because of the unabomber

that's not a great analogy

yeah the unabomber is good and white nationalists are bad

lmao

assuming that isn't what Andy meant, ignore the analogy and tell me what's bad about Signal

Using Signal is like having a Protonmail account; it just tells me that you take yourself way too seriously.

white nationalists also used it during Unite the Right.

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 5:15 PM (yesterday)

btw, this was actually Discord

Using Signal is like having a Protonmail account; it just tells me that you take yourself way too seriously.

Tell me you don’t live in a red state without telling me don’t live in a red state.

I don't particularly care for Signal (it's a pretty bare-bones messaging app) but certain people in my life won't use anything but so I'm stuck if I wanna communicate with them

Anyway I thought Telegram was the most active messaging app for right wing extremists. I’ve never tried that one.

and I assume people are just kidding w/stuff like "white nationalists use it" cuz that's like objecting to sending packages in the mail because of the unabomber

― rob, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 1:06 PM bookmarkflaglink

I wasn't saying that as an objection, just pointing out it does have a wide reach. might even tell my team to move to it, but i haven't tried it yet.