SimpleX's founder is transphobic, anti abortion, conservative, pro Israel, climatosceptic : simplex

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 weeks ago

I’m sure its 5 users aren’t bothered by this.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago

What a shame

[–] terrorofdemons@monero.town 2 points 3 weeks ago

Transphobic? Anti-abortion? Conservative? Climatosceptic?

THAT'S AWESOME!!! I went and followed him on X because of this post.

I'm surprised so many of you are hateful of people with his views. Don't you believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion? Or do you insist everyone has to agree with your weird new sh!t?

Really, it's weird (twisted) for anyone to insist everyone else believes a certain dude is a babe, or that we should be allowed to kill unborn children, or that cow farts are going to kill the planet. Sober up, man. Get real. Get based.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

You thought he founded SimpleX to chat with his church friends?

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 13 points 4 weeks ago

Privacy is important for everyone. The assumption that someone who writes a privacy focused application has nefarious intent is a sinister implication that fascists want you to adopt, internalize, and believe.

Do you believe it?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"transphobic, anti-abortion, conservative"
"church friends" checks out well to me.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 3 points 4 weeks ago

When viewed this way… yes haha

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 3 points 4 weeks ago

Do you believe the same thing applies to Signal and Matrix? I disagree

[–] andybytes@programming.dev -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with everyone here, but it does show the character of this man. And when people have these types of feelings, well, they don't operate off of principle. Anything on the internet is not really private anyways.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 4 weeks ago

And when people have these types of feelings, well, they don't operate off of principle

I don’t believe they will turn away from having a privacy respecting and encrypted messaging app, and their beliefs might be their reason to

[+] Sophocles@infosec.pub -10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Quite litterally an ad hominem fallacy. Regardless of the founder's questionable moral character, SimpleX is still one of the most private and useful messengers out there. You can't deny the quality, especially when all the code is open source and auditable by anyone who wants to put real effort into discrediting it.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 5 points 4 weeks ago

I never questioned it and actually believe it’s currently one of the best (minus some problems like link previews not being generated through a proxy, multi device sync, or file compression)

I’m just disappointed with the news. I would have gladly donated to help with development but now that I know who I would be funding, I’m not so sure anymore

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