<spritzes you with water like a bitey kitten>

So they could have replaced it with, like, email verification or something, but they instead stuck to the design that lets governments identify all users?

<Insert rampant and unfounded speculation about FBI compromise here>

🥲👈💞😏💞🕶️😏😣🕶️ 😝

A+ bait, totally got me

This is what tonglen feels like when you’re able to really get going

Context FROM THE FUTURE :O

I hate you for posting this (please marry me)

I think the assumption is that WW3 will involve nukes, and the collapse of civilization as a result.

While I’m still raining on your parade:

https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin

Pretty sure you still need a phone number for an account, though - the usernames are just for sharing your contact with other people.

Most peoples’ phone numbers are easily linked to their identity. Which means the government knows who’s using Signal.

Usernames are definitely an improvement, but this is a fundamental limitation in Signal’s design.

One use case could be mass protests/uprisings, where you have a lot of people congregated in a small area. An increasingly popular strategy among governments these days is to just shut down the entire internet in an agitated region. Bluetooth could keep information flowing between people with only mutual contacts, as they move in and out of range.

Consider Briar.

Uses Tor. Works directly over Bluetooth/WiFi if the internet is censored or shut down. Decentralized, no accounts. No phone number required.

Of all the options available, I feel like this one is the best suited to current threats (oppressive governments with all-encompassing surveillance, and the willingness to destroy critical institutions and infrastructure).

The app is super barebones right now - feels like SMS - but it works. Main downside is that both participants have to be online at the same time (maybe group chats can work around this?), since there’s no servers.

This is so wholesome!

steal your food, then toss you table scraps

consider: train🚆
train: go zoom 🚄
train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don’t forget the enbies dummy 💁
train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣

🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️‍⚧️

HELL YES COMRADE, FIGHT THE POWER

fr though, this is such a badass way to get banned. don’t even reply to them - just keep doing the thing, post, and watch as every pathetic attempt at intimidation gets hundreds of defiant upvotes here.

✨ watching my life pass me by 💫

Underrated AF.

You know, I spent a lot of time today obsessing over how bad the world is getting, and wondering what the point of it all is.

This. It’s this. I stick around for the weird motherfuckers who’ll do shit like this, and share it on the internet.

If I must live through yet another apocaplyse, I want to do it with you.