Agreed, if you can live with a genocide in someone else’s country and have to vote for the lesser evil, I can live with your country turning fascist, losing influence and being discarded by your own vassal states.
Anything for greater good with choosing lesser evil, right?
The breaking down of US hegemony is far beneficial to everyone overall than you losing healthcare.
Bet, now you suddenly think that’s non-empathetic, huh bud?
Many lemmy apps also have a web app:
Off the top of my head:
Piefed is free of ads, why would anyone choose to use piefed with ads?
Have you actually thought this through?
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?
Neither does random accounts spewing pro Chinese or Russian statements, but they never get the “they don’t speak for <>” treatment.
According to them, anyone even saying something good are directly tied to Kremlin, FSB, CCP and 5 cent army. But there’s caution when its propaganda from their side. Yaayy
Yankistanis love using these scare tactics until it comes to bite them.