• @Phineaz@feddit.org
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    5711 months ago

    I don’t mean to imply anything, but this post was listed maybe one scroll away from the piracy community welcoming everyone to SimpleX. Unfortunate timing.

      • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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        7311 months ago

        Infrastructure will always be used by evil and good. If it exists. Just like a road. Normal people use them as well as murderers.

        If a good encryption chat software exists it will be used. It’s necessary for normal privacy and sensitive topics between people but those ones will also use it. Nothing to do about it.

        • snooggums
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          Ywah, but it sucks when malicious actors use it enough to bring attention from authorities who will do eveeything they can to undermine everyone’s privacy.

      • @anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1311 months ago

        I don’t really get either of these comments. No one should be using telegram for anything other than a discord clone, and of course the shady turds will gravitate to privacy-focused messaging apps. I mean presumably that’s why the turds chose telegram initially, they just fucked up the due diligence and thought telegram was secure because they credulously believed the founder dude who folded under state pressure.

        • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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          1011 months ago

          It would be nice if the first publicity it got wasn’t for being the choice of Nazis. I don’t like that if I mention to a coworker that I use it, there’s going to be that question of “wait, is this guy secretly a white supremacist”.

        • sunzu2
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          Nobody did any due diligence… They heard the marketing and that it.

        • andrew_bidlaw
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          511 months ago

          That’s a good point to it tho. It means Simplex is simple enough for anyone, even telegram pogromists to use. Advanced stuff became user-friendly, so average folks can with some adjustment come to it too.

  • sunzu2
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    2011 months ago

    Amazing how we never get these headlines…

    “PC gamers are fleeing windows to Linux because microshit is a creep”

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      Well most windows users aren’t using it to organize neonazis or sell drugs (which is at least half of telegrams users) so maybe that’s why

      • sunzu2
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        -611 months ago

        🤡 level understanding of the situation here

        • mosiacmango
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          How are Windows users and neo nazis alike in your analogy?

          • @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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            211 months ago

            There’s no analogy, because windows users are not fleeing.

            I read it as a “wish for people to get fed up with windows” comment, and not a “windows users are nazis” comment.

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              Wow. I mean, Linux has a heavy fanbase here, but I’ve never seen someone shoehorn a discussion of Microsoft vs Linux into a thread about Nazis out of the blue.

              Impressive.

  • @Tregetour@lemdro.id
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    911 months ago

    Smear campaign

    A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone’s reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[

  • mox
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    511 months ago

    Why not link the original source?

    Was this article funded by a would-be surveillance state? If not, I wonder what David Gilbert’s headline will be when he learns that roads, telephones, postal services, and conference halls are also used by neo-nazis.

      • @Teal@lemm.ee
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        Different backgrounds will draw different conclusions. Being in the medical field and not ham radio (had to look up what you’ve mentioned) it would never have occurred to me.

        I didn’t mean to offend. Nazi ideology can be like a virus and so is what I stated in my comment. A poorly made joke I guess.

  • dinckel
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    Neo-nazis, or any kind of fascists, have no space anywhere. They can fuck off to the next platform, but they can’t run forever