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You know I actually agree with him on that one.

Or country was founded on political violence (as most are). It was born or if government distrust.

No we just pardon him after the fact like Abbott did for the bigot who killed a George Floyd protestor.

I don’t understand what that has to do with this conversation. Signal does not advertise your phone number to anyone that doesn’t already have it.

Election reform is the greatest issue of our time. Ranked choice voting or similar will fix this party allegiance nonsense.

Second is money in politics. Politicians across the spectrum conspiring against the people in the name of their donors.

Fix these 2 problems and everything else will trickle down.

My brother, you clearly haven’t read much about the CCP’s surveillance efforts.

Also remind me which region is actively attempting to end encryption as a whole?

E: lots of downvotes. No answers.

Lessen the risk of…finding out your phone #?

Then just say you don’t like the US, no reason to make up some bullshit about NSLs and AWS and phone numbers.

Its giving your phone number to amazon and most likely a US surveillance government agency

Do you really think they don’t already have my/your phone #?

It exists on the internet, so it exists in every country.

You’re equating giving my Mom my phone number with broadcasting my phone number on the Threadiverse?

…because this is not a private message? And because my home address is not a piefed server. Such a weird question…

Multiple-accounts and pseudonyms

What about them?

Also SIM-cards/phone numbers are required by law to be attached to your real world identity in many countries.

Why is that a problem?

No one that has told me this has ever been able to offer up any sort of explanation, but please do feel free to give it ago.

I often see convos on SimpleX that are clearly missing messages, so I’m not sure what that’s about. I mean I see people quoting messages that are not visible.

Also I really think they need to implement UnifiedPush before it’s ready. It consumes an excessive amount of battery life for this reason.

Also worth noting that the creator is an alt-right loon of the highest order.

They have your phone number but that’s really all they have.

Some people say Bozos can read your metadata because it’s hosted on AWS servers but I don’t believe that.

Will Eurogamer figure out how ‘quotation marks’ work?

Presumably so they can charge you more to increase it, like everyone else.

Define “failed”?

Microsoft is a business. If they aren’t able to sell phones, they fail. Linux doesn’t sell anything and yet is able to keep trucking for 30 years.

Can Linux mobile hardware OEMs fail? Can and have. But the software community presses on. Not as quickly as I would like but they press on regardless.

The problem is there are lots of places where fighting makes sense but you have no control. 99% will turn all their info over without batting an eye.

I was invited to an event recently on Partiful. If you’re unfamiliar, this is the company founder by a bunch of former Palantir execs. The only way to RSVP or see the event info or get updates or anything else is to turn over your phone number. I told the person who invited me that I wasn’t comfortable giving these people my info and they responded along the lines of “okay, don’t come”.

I went to a food truck a while back and they wouldn’t even give me a menu or accept my order at the window. Told me I needed to download, order and pay through their shitty app.

Anyone who has my contact information volunteers it in it’s entirety to any shitty app that asks for it. They upload pictures of me (along with the according metadata) to surveillance databases without my consent or knowledge, thinking nothing of it.

He’s not even that rich