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Twitter Is Blocking Links To Signal (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/signal@lemmy.ml

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[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Musk Censorship on X is not a new phenomena.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

Especially ironic as a few years ago he tweeted "download Signal" and so many people did that it took down their servers

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised. They also were blocking Meta, Revolt and Bluesky links awhile back as well. They very commonly block things they think people may want to migrate too until it hits the media and then it magically starts working again.

Least this time it actually errors instead of it just shadow banning the post.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They tried to block mastodon links as well, but it really only affected 2 or 3 instances.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose it's an advantage of a decentralised service, it's harder to block.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Speech can be free but not private. No Signal or WIRE for you.

Every keystroke in FB Messenger is logged and saved. I can’t imagine Elon’s Xitter is much better. Signal and WIRE don’t do that.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every keystroke in gboard could be tracked.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I use the Futo keyboard. Much better anyways. A lot more features and customizability plus offline speach-to-text.