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i can’t believe “maga dot place” is one of the only liberal instances that hasn’t defederated us

this happens unsurprisingly often. the NSA calls it LOVEINT

imo if you’re putting sh.itjust.works in the list of instances you ought to mention they have a lot of chuds there. huge chud problem. also they’ve defederated hexbear and lemmygrad so

yeah but “libertarian socialist” is about as descriptive as “leftist”. like you’re talking about vaush here. in terms of actual organizing anarchists are valuable comrades with their own intellectual tradition. you can point to any idiot on twitter who thinks hospitals are authoritarian, just like you can point to maoists on discord who think we shouldn’t care for the disabled and do adventurism in dc

i’m ngl, (online) marxists treat anarchists like right-libertarians treat marxists. like there’s all this cherry-picking and strawmanning and a refusal to engage with actual anarchist thought. an Objectivist says marxists think you can make mud pies in your backyard for 8 hours and it’s worth a million dollars, and an Online Marxist says anarchists think bedtimes and medicine are tyranny

as a sidenote i just noticed i posted the dessalines essay twice in this thread so i’ll say just for the record i still like signal. the security of the messaging protocol is, according to every cryptographer i’ve read on the topic, the gold standard in the field. it just makes me uncomfortable that a service, especially one centralized around amazon aws, is demanding my phone number. means they can tie my government name to my social graph

i don’t agree with everything in that essay but the OTF-CIA connection gives me good reason not to read anything they say. not that everything they fund is bad but everything they say is untrustworthy.

maybe more importantly though, is briar android-only? no desktop app?

i don’t want to make you do my googling for me but if you have anything else just on-hand i’d love to read it. i can’t trust the open tech fund because of its ties to the cia (see this paragraph by dessalines) but i’ll definitely look into briar

do you know of any good in-depth analyses of its security? every time i decide on a new chat app someone has to point out something that totally ruins it lol

unfortunately not. matrix is probably a no because of this thread. i hear a lot of people saying briar is good but idk anything about it

crazy that no one’s posted the dessalines article yet https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

EDIT: just to have it here in case anyone even cares, i put my thoughts on the essay later on in the thread

nvm, just found this and this

i see. thanks for responding!

well there’s about a thousand reasons not to use synapse anyway

do you have anything against systemd in particular?

what’s wrong with matrix

i can’t believe i found a linux user these days who doesn’t use systemd. if it’s not weird to ask, when did you switch to devuan and why do you prefer its init? why not go with bsd?

good luck comrade

it’s also relevant that the prominent marxist-leninist tiktok user madeline pendleton came out last year about being approached by the dnc over this. naturally, she was harassed, slandered, and suffered financial consequences from some of these same people. that’s all well and good but it’s really surprising to me that so many of the people who did it were not involved in the dark money thing. i guess because liberals are more interested in harassing communists than they are in their own material interests