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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden

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[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why isn't he posting on fediverse?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Who says he isn't with a personal/private account and uses the public persona twitter one for the reach. As shitty as twitter is its still the gravitational center for bursting news.

[–] trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

He likely doesn't want to get too involved with social media. Stuff easily consumes you. Twitter is just good to reach out to people, which is kinda bad that Twitter got that big.

[–] aibler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's not a lot of people on here.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] aibler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just mean relative to other platforms, there just aren't many of us.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There’s like five people on here. It’s sometimes scary how often I see the same users.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Hey it's me, user number 6

[–] Metype@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to think I lurk enough to not generally be recognized.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You’re on my radar now 👀

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Who the hell are you?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Because he wants people to see what he has to say.

[–] DuckGuy@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because it isn't secure at all?

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No social media is secure. That's kind of the point of social media.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Twitter is somehow safer?

[–] DuckGuy@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Obviously not.

If you're saying this because Snowden said wait he said on Twitter, I'm sorry but I wouldn't know. Not because I didn't try to read the article, I did, but because my custom DNS flagged cointelegraph.com as being malignant and blocked it. True story.

Edit: cointelegraph, not "cointelegram."

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cointelegraph might not be for someone who is very anti-crypto, but it's a legit website with well researched articles, not a source of malware/scams/autogenerated spam.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 1 year ago

Their custom DNS is very ant-crypto. Janet Yellen is the personal resolver.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a fearmongering website design to scare people into buying crypto.

Their articles that aren't about crypto get spammed to social media a lot. It's to get traffic on their site and hope they can hook some.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

While I can't recommend this site for general news, the article in question is pretty well written.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

why does security matter?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Can't he post over I2P/Freenet?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a good question. Anyone have answers that aren't so obviously wrong?

[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone on twitter could ask him. "Unfortunately" I have no account anymore.