You can't say anything on this platform anymore that isn't super left or they downvote you into obscurity! I took a shot at Bluesky a week or so back and they hit me with a nice shiny pile of downvotes. Yet the user base on that app is dismal compared to X. O well!
I don't think you understand. The downvotes you get are not because of your political leanings. You get down voted for all sorts of reasons. I personally downvote anyone who whines about being down voted. Well, you look like a good snowflake to downvote.
Here's a thought: if you don't want to get down voted then don't have shitty opinions. You support a POTUS who has literally raped at least one child and multiple women, who also filled his cabinet with pedophiles though he missed out on the child sex trafficker. Your right wing economic ideas have been proven time and time and time and time again to not only not work but they actively harm the economy and anyone who isn't in the top 10% of earners. Your right wing ideas on religion are always unconstitutional. The fact that your ideas are routinely unconstitutional proves you don't care about this country otherwise you wouldn't be cool with trying to subvert such an important document.
Also, fun fact for anyone who isn't you: when Republicans cry about "the left" they're mostly crying about moderates and conservatives. The average Republican has no idea that, on the political spectrum, their party is now hanging out with ISIS and the Taliban. The "left" hasn't changed much, the right has pushed way right. I know this upsets Republicans but you all choose to be a part of the Party of Pedophiles and Domestic Terrorism.
Republicans are top of the FBI list for domestic terrorism. Easily looked up fact but I'll let you look it up since the average Republican likes to "do their own research."
...you mean the preexisting platform that's had over a decade to grow its user base? I'd hope that they'd have a pretty fair lead in that aspect at least
FYP is based on what you use the app for, or what you use other apps for (that cross app share). So if your feed is a mess, maybe you should look deeper at what you are viewing across your devices. Pick a social media platform, any of them. You will find they ALL create echo chambers that just feed right back into whatever interest the reader has. Reddit used to be less of an echo chamber, but over the last 5 years it seems to have declined. But that is my opinion, and I do not expect everyone to share it. I would like to point out that most of the advertisers that recently left X to make political points are all back there advertising now, even Disney (and that was back in Q4 2024).
Great job only reading one point, locking onto it, and ignoring the rest of my post. Wait to prove my point about echo chambers, you are actively curating yours!
I mean I was on Twitter for +12 yrs. I know how it works. It got awful. And there's plenty of discussion on Reddit that Twitter's FYP pushes stuff that you haven't engaged with previously. Incessant pro trump conspiracy theory garbage.
OR, maybe that stuff you label as garbage is being read and agreed upon by the majority of the United States, and as a result, is being forced into your feed due to shear numbers. Versus the tiny corners of the internet you filter to show up in your FYP and other social media threads all curated by your personally developed algorithm. Kinda how they all told us that Kam Kam was winning by a landslide, then they all acted shocked when she lost the popular vote. Let's try this again, if X is so bad, why are advertisers flocking back to it and leaving Bluesky (and TikTok for that matter)? I can tell you why, the ROI is garbage (to use your wording). Because they are platforms where people go to complain and voice their opinions loudly, not listen to others or consume products.
I'm not in the states so again why is it being pushed to me.
And the ads I saw on twitter (deactivated my account this week week) are literally never from household names. It's dropshipping shlock with community notes on them.
Twitter is objectively worse following musks takeover. It's not an argument. It's a fact.
It's also fucking weird that people who support trump inevitably support anyone in his circle. Even people like musk. Richer than God with all the Christian values of a crack whore.
That's not what I said... I mean I didn't think it was hard to figure out both parties were hacked at the same time but only one was used as a weapon but then again this is reddit and thinking is hard for some of you.
Because the person wasn't trying to make an honest point, they were trying to go on the attack for something that happened to both parties and I called it out.
You think the only end to end encryption communication platform that has a not for-profit foundation at its head, has its own protocol, doesn’t collect metadata, is open source, and has been around since 2014… is a honeypot operation?
I mean we can nitpick about word choice if you want but that’s just how the feature works. People are following shady links and getting their shit hijacked. That’s what’s commonly referred to as “social engineering” not a “vulnerability”.
It just doesn’t catch as much attention to put “Signal Social Engineering Hack” on a poster when you’re trying to keep people from being dumb and maintain OPSEC.
Not everything can be hacked at scale. It's also the platform of choice of people that have states as enemies (journalists, activists, opposition in 'democratic' countries, etc).
We can't currently break asymmetric encryptions, and the next thing that is being worked on (matrices) will be quantum proof too.
This requires the use user to authenticate another device or the device being compromised. That's not signal. You can't hide such an attack either.
This again cannot be done on a wide scale, and the POI needs little security awareness (waves at Trump cabinet) and/or be dumb (waves a second time).
This does not mean signal encryption is broken. I'm not sure what you're trying to say by posting that link, but it heavily hints that you don't have a grasp on these technologies.
Ps: signal is already quantum resistent. I missed that they switched algos.
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u/kempnelms Feb 17 '25
Yes. Everyone working the Democratic campaigns in 2024 used Signal, for a reason.