r/technology Feb 17 '25

Social Media X is blocking links to Signal

https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors
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u/DonutsMcKenzie Feb 17 '25

Free and open source software, including encrypted communication (like Signal) and federated social media software (like Lemmy and Mastodon) are a threat to tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

You might not value them yet, but the very reason they fear them is the exact reason we should care about them.